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A small mushroom summary of the trip to the Lublin region

2 Oct 2024 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Małe grzybowe podsumowanie wyjazdu na lubelszczyznę It wasn't a trip full of spectacular finds. The very warm and dry weather meant that most of the mushrooms found were small, which doesn't diminish their taste value. Nie był to wyjazd obfitujący...

Three parasitic fungi in one place, or rather one on top of the other

30 Jan 2025 2 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

Trzy grzyby pasożytnicze w jednym miejscu, a w zasadzie jeden na drugim We all know that parasitic fungi exist, many people know that there are fungi that parasitize on others, but few people certainly know that fungi can create a triangle. To że i...

Conditionally edible mushroom - Mica cap

5 Oct 2024 1 minute read 1 comment 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...

Parasitic fungi - Pseudoboletus parasiticus - a fungus on a fungus

12 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  This is a rare case of the canine fungus that is edible. It mainly parasitizes on the fruiting bodies of the warty and common marsh. The cap of the bay bolete is gray-yellow, olive-gray, and often resembles its host. At first, it is semici...

Little known edible mushrooms - Dark-scaled knight

22 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The mushroom cap can be up to 10 cm in diameter. As with most of the geese family, at the beginning it has the shape of a bell, with age it opens up to become flat or concave with age. It may have a slight bulge at the tip. The surface of...

Tasty spring arboreal mushroom - dryad's saddle

27 Mar 2025 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 tree...

Rubroboletus satana - devil in the forest

6 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The hat has a specific color, white, gray, gray, sometimes gray-white. It can reach a diameter of up to 25 cm, in young fruiting bodies it is semicircular, convex, in the older ones it is flattened. The skin is dull, dry and dull. The tub...

Leucopaxillus giganteus - healing properties of mushrooms

12 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Leucopaxillus giganteus, also known as giant funnel, has medicinal applications. It contains Clitocin, which has antibacterial properties and stimulates the self-destruction of some cancer cells (apoptosis). The hat can be up to 50 cm in...

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...

Fried chicken mushroom - Lyophyllum decastes

10 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The hat can be up to 15cm in diameter. Color pale brown, sometimes almost white. Semicircular, becomes convex over time. The lamellae are usually white with shades of brown, dense Leg extended at the base, often bent. Full, fibrous inside...