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In search of boletus edulis - and a pleasant surprise Giant polypore

28 Jul 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  These are autumn memories when I went to search for noble porcini mushrooms. The harvest was so big that it was difficult to divide attention and look for mushrooms other than boletus - but it succeeded. My attention was caught by a rathe...

Fascinating mushroom shapes - Boletus reticulatus

27 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Cap - The diameter of the hat can be from 6 to 30 cm. Pale brown to hazel in color, sometimes greyish brown or ocher gray. Young fruiting bodies may have a dark brown cap. Initially semicircular in shape, then convex, eventually flattened....

Rain is needed immediately, otherwise there will be no mushrooms

24 Jul 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The prolonged drought has caused fewer and fewer mushrooms in the forest. Sometimes you can even come across a boletus, but you have to be very lucky, know the area very well and generally look for these mushrooms in places where there is s...

The Mysterious Weeping Tree Fungus - Climacocystis borealis Mushroom

19 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

I encountered this species of mushroom for the first time in my life, and what's more, it was very close to home, because in the park I go to every day. The fungus in question is the northern sponge fungus (Climacocystis borealis), a very r...

Mushroom Memories, Boletus Edulis, Amanita Vaginata

18 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

This year's end of the mushroom season in the area where I usually collect them was not very impressive. I just found a few boletus edulis. They clearly show that there is considerable interest in mushrooms, and the teeth marks of smal...

Inedible but non-poisonous boletus - Caloboletus radicans

17 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

The flesh is lemon yellow in color, and turns blue when pressed. It has a slightly bitter and unpleasant taste and smell. It is a species of mushroom that is under strict protection in Poland. It is a rare and dying species. Mainly found in so...

Very rare boletus - Daffodil boletus

16 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The fruiting body of this species may have a cap about 16 cm in diameter. The young fruiting body is semicircular, then becomes convex. The color of the young mushroom is lemon, pale yellow, becoming orange-yellow with age, and resembles a fl...

The first boletus in the forest - Boletus erythropus

15 Jul 2025 2 minute read 1 comment madventure

They are already here! They are already here! King of mushrooms, or boletus. It is true that so far only Boletus erythropus, but also these are appreciated by mushroom gourmets. For me, it is one of the tastiest edible mushrooms. I especially lo...

Boletus luridus - Edible mushrooms in Europe

14 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

      Boletus luridus (Lurid bolete) - The hat can reach 20 cm in diameter and more. The color is yellow-orange, sometimes olive with a pinkish tinge, darkening when touched.       In young mushrooms, the pores are yellow, change color over time a...

Boletus reticulatus - Noble edible mushrooms in summer - growth phase

13 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  In the photo above, we can observe individual, spectacular stages of growth of the entire colony Borowik. From baby to adult fruit. Boletus reticulatus, this noble mushroom is one of the first noble edible mushrooms, which very often appears in ea...