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Common roll-rim, the controversial mushroom eaten for generations

14 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Brown roll-rim - my grandparents and parents ate it and lived a long time. I, too, am still in good health This common mushroom was considered edible in the 1970s. Its edibility changed over time. In the 1980s, the mushroom was conditional...

A place in Red-capped scaber stalk - a memory of autumn walks in the Jura

13 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Everyone who very often goes to the forest to pick mushrooms in one region has so-called "his spots". These are places where you can meet a particular species of fungus every year at a certain time. Of course, as an experienced mu...

Autumn mushroom with a garlic smell - Mycetinis prasiosmus

12 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Mycetinis prasiosmus is a mushroom from the lamellar family. His hat is about 3 cm in diameter. The color of the hat is brown, translucent, slightly ribbed, lighter at the edges. During a dry aura it becomes whitish, faded. Gills light b...

Mushrooms in the lens, not only in the kitchen

11 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

Boletus edulis - Do I really have good makeup or should I parade in the sun? Today it will be a little different about mushrooms, not about their culinary or health properties, but about their undoubted charm and sometimes even grace. Toadstool...

Little known edible mushrooms - Agrocybe praecox

10 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The mushroom cap can reach up to 11 cm in diameter. When the fruiting body is young, it has a bell-shaped, then semicircular shape, and flat in old age. Color: cream, light cream, white, light ocher. During the dry season, the surface of t...

Bay bolete - large, healthy and record-breaking

8 Sep 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Looking at the places where the bolete mushroom sometimes grows, one might wonder if it is not an arboreal fungus. This is because I often find them to a tree growing out of a trunk or even from the tree itself. My record specimen of the...

For some creatures like Chanel perfumes - Common Stinkhorn

7 Sep 2024 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...

Cortinarius semisanguineus (Surprise Webcap) - Poisonous mushrooms in the world

6 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Cortinarius semisanguineus (Surprise Webcap) - The diameter of the hat can reach 6 cm. When the fruiting body is young it has a bell-shaped, hemispherical, arched shape. It opens with age and becomes outstretched, with a small tapered hump....

Herald of the winter - rarely picked edible mushrooms

5 Sep 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Walking through the pine groves in search of slippery jack, we can very often meet other species of mushrooms that prefer similar environments. Such fungi include, among others, Wodnicha late. The cap of this mushroom can reach several cm...

Mica cap, conditionally edible mushroom

3 Sep 2024 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 eaten it, app...