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Mushrooms with unusual shapes - Dead man's fingers

3 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  This is one of the most unusual mushrooms that can be found during mushroom picking - Dead man's fingers Hat, Leg The fruiting body has irregular shapes. May be club-shaped. oval, resembling human fingers. Length up to 11 cm, thickness up...

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

2 Jul 2024 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...

Little known arboreal mushrooms - Polyporus alveolaris

2 Jul 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Hat The hat is orange yellow, sometimes ocher yellow. It has scales that are slightly darker than the entire hat. The most common shape is round or oval. The center of the hat is slightly concave, the edges slightly wavy. | Hymenofor The...

Edible spring mushrooms - Morchella conica

1 Jul 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

Morchella conica (Morchella conica) fruiting bodies from lowlands Hat The fruiting body of this mushroom is basically one big bag empty inside. It can be up to 15 cm high, of which the hat usually takes 50 to 70%. The mushroom has a conical sh...

Why do animals eat poisonous mushrooms and nothing happens to them?

2 Jul 2025 2 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68

Dlaczego zwierzęta zjadają trujące grzyby i nic im nie jest? There are many mushrooms in the forest in some regions, but few in others. And a weak fungal infestation of the forest is visible on individual individuals, which are gnawed by forest roden...

Wolf's milk, Groening's slime? spore explosion, like a festival of colors

29 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Here, unfortunately, I have a problem with identifying the fungus, because firstly I suspect that it is a slime mold, i.e. neither a fungus, nor a plant or an animal. Everything seems to indicate that it is a tree Rulik from last season. Th...

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...