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Dead man's fingers like stones at Stonehenge - a walk through a swampy forest

10 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Palce umarlaka niczym kamienie w Stonehenge - spacer po podmokłym lesie Today's walk in the forest was extremely pleasant. The weather was good, the sun was shining all the time, and the temperature jumped to plus 11 degrees, which is perfect for a...

Russula graveolens - a fungus with an unpleasant fish smell, also called stinky

10 Mar 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

This edible mushroom has the nickname "smelly" for a reason. In the state when it is ripe or already overripe, it smells like decomposing fish. It can be found already in spring in deciduous forests under oaks and birches. Likes acidic soils....

Autumn edible mushroom - Lyophyllum loricatum

8 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

This autumn mushroom with gills can reach up to 20 cm in diameter. It is an edible mushroom, but not recognized by connoisseurs because of its tart taste. The color of the cap is most often gray, olive-gray and hygrophanous, that is, it chan...

Pestle puffball or long-stemmed puffball - unusual edible mushroom

7 Mar 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

The species of this mushroom can be found in virtually every type of forest, often in clearings, along forest roads. It grows in groups, and appears in late spring and bears fruit until autumn. The mushroom does not have a clearly separated c...

Looks appetizing but be fooled - Rosy bonnet

6 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

Of course, in nature it is not a rule that aggressive colors are there to scare away potential gourmets. In the case of this mushroom, however, its pretty pink color heralds problems. Rosy bonnet is a poisonous mushroom, maybe not enough to ki...

Elfin saddle edible mushroom only for experienced mushroom pickers

5 Mar 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

Elfin saddle is one of the mushroom species that should be approached with caution. Although it is edible, an inexperienced mushroom picker can confuse it with other poisonous species, for example with (Gyromitra esculenta) which is deadly poi...

Orange peel fungus like gold nuggets in a gray forest

4 Mar 2024 1 minute read 2 comments madventure

Walking in the early spring in the forest in search of morels or related edible species of mushrooms, we may come across a rather peculiar case. It is a mushroom called spring . This is an unusual phenomenon and a very rare mushroom, but it r...

Mushrooms desirable in every good restaurant - Morels in different varieties

2 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Although theoretically the morel season should end, the cold spring meant that we can collect them even after the end of April and it will probably last until mid-May. Of course, not in every place, but on the banks of streams and sma...

The first terrestrial mushrooms (scurfy twiglet) and a visit to old friends of arboreal mushrooms

28 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Pierwsze grzybki naziemne i odwiedziny u starych znajomych grzybów nadrzewnych The weather has gone crazy in my region. Where normally there should still be severe frost, today the thermometers showed plus 20.5 degrees in the shade!! This weather do...

To the layman, it looks like edible buttercream, but it's... commonly known as the wrinkled webcap

27 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

To the layman, it looks like edible buttercream, but it's... commonly known as the wrinkled webcap. When you meet it for the first time, from above and even from the side it looks like a butter mushroom, a tasty edible mushroom. Even the muc...