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Helvella spadicea - Bactericidal properties

27 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  This time a find from June this year. I have already written about this genre, but today it is a bit different. Mushrooms tend to absorb heavy metals, and in this case Helvella Spadicea is in the lead. Collects very large amounts of Nic...

Hemileccinum depilatum - A scalloped scallop, a rare edible mushroom, where does the name come from?

17 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The name of the folded fawn comes from its structure. The mushroom has characteristic folds on the cap, and as a young fruiting body it is dark brown, chestnut, and when it matures, its cap fades to ocher, ocher yellow. The cap can be up t...

Another, but delayed, season of Cerioporus squamosus

14 Jun 2025 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Kolejny, ale opóźniony sezon żagwi łuskowatej (Cerioporus squamosus) I have been observing this type of mushroom for many years in the same place. It grows on an old dead willow and it is beautiful to watch its growth, which is visible from day to da...

What mushrooms can I visit our kitchen at the beginning of summer? There are several controversial genres

13 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Saffron ringless amanita The next weekend walks in the June forest bring more and more edible mushroom species. One of the first edible toadstools is the yellowish toadstool. It can be found in June in deciduous forests in sunny, warm pl...

Common Stinkhorn - for some creatures like Chanel perfumes

12 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  It is a fungus that I come across in the forest every summer. It always fascinates with its sophisticated shape and an equally sophisticated smell, which is unbearable for humans, because it resembles the stench of decaying carcass. But to...

Freckled dapperling - even an experienced mushroom picker may have doubts

9 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  At first glance, most mushroom pickers would say that it is parasol mushroom, only still young, undeveloped. And it actually looks almost identical with a slight difference. The Freckled dapperling is characteristic for its hat with distin...

Conditionally edible mushroom - Mica cap

7 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  While walking in the woods, we often come across clumps of mushrooms that seem inedible. In the case of a Mica cap, the situation is a bit different. It is an edible mushroom, but only in the early stages of development. I have never eate...

Dryad's saddle or pheasant's back mushroom - Tasty spring arboreal mushroom

6 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  It was in my regions that underestimated by many pickers, early spring edible mushrooms appeared. Only that it is an arboreal species and you should not always look for it on rotten wood, but on old trunks. It often grows on healthy tre...

Warmth in a cold forest - Winter Flame, edible winter mushrooms - Flammulina velutipes

31 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Warmth in a cold forest - Winter Flame In the environment of people fascinated with mushrooms, we call it "Flamulinka", but the name Płomiennica Zimowa also has a justified origin. It is a mushroom that looks like a smoldering fire in a g...

Underground edible mushrooms of Europe - Hydnotrya tulasnei

30 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Underground fungus, most often tuber-shaped, spherical or ovoid, with small indentations, furrows, bulges. It can reach 5-6 cm in diameter. The surface is somewhat reminiscent of potato tubers, chestnut. The color ranges from red-brown to p...