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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...

Common earthball - an amateur will confuse it with a truffle and will experience unpleasant results of disappointment

22 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The end of July is the time when more and more different species of mushrooms appear in the forests. This is favored by cooler nights and higher humidity. One such species is the lemon hookworm. Its name basically contains all its chara...

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...

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...

Ustilago maydis - Little-known mushrooms - the edible corn parasite

29 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Corn smut (Ustilago maydis) It is a fungus that grows on corn cobs. It is a parasite that destroys maize crops and should not be included in the feed of farm animals. But the interesting thing is that when the fruiting body is still young,...

Fresh porcini mushrooms in a cream sauce stewed in white wine with onion and Pene noodles

27 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The period when we can enjoy fresh species of mushrooms, especially noble ones, is very short. Sometimes it lasts two months, sometimes a week, or it is not there at all because there was a crop failure, a drought. However, we managed to...

Mock oyster - Winter arboreal mushrooms

26 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Orange-yellow oyster mushroom. The hat can be up to 8 cm in diameter, has a bright orange color, very visible in winter weather. Semicircular in appearance, in the shape of a fan, outstretched with age. Adherent to the ground sideways. The...

Winter arboreal mushrooms - Phaesolenia densa

25 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

There is nothing to show, I'm tiny, I have a few millimeters, but I'm beautiful There is nothing to show, I am tiny, I have a few millimeters, but I am beautiful. I grow mainly on poplar branches in late autumn and winter. Value: inedible (becau...

Does oyster mushroom have healing properties? - Edible winter mushrooms - Pleurotus ostreatus

24 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Healing properties of Oyster Mushroom The most important therapeutic effect of oyster mushroom is its antioxidant properties. Another important health-promoting feature is lowering blood sugar levels. It also helps to lower LDL cholester...