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Why do animals eat poisonous mushrooms and nothing happens to them?

2 Jul 2025 2 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68 $0.09

Dlaczego zwierzęta zjadają trujące grzyby i nic im nie jest? There are many mushrooms in the forest in some regions, but few in others. And a weak fungal infestation of the forest is visible on individual individuals, which are gnawed by forest roden...

Edible spring mushrooms - Morchella conica

1 Jul 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure $0.12

Morchella conica (Morchella conica) fruiting bodies from lowlands Hat The fruiting body of this mushroom is basically one big bag empty inside. It can be up to 15 cm high, of which the hat usually takes 50 to 70%. The mushroom has a conical sh...

Wolf's milk, Groening's slime? spore explosion, like a festival of colors

29 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure $0.13

  Here, unfortunately, I have a problem with identifying the fungus, because firstly I suspect that it is a slime mold, i.e. neither a fungus, nor a plant or an animal. Everything seems to indicate that it is a tree Rulik from last season. Th...

Helvella spadicea - Bactericidal properties

27 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure $0.05

  This time a find from June this year. I have already written about this genre, but today it is a bit different. Mushrooms tend to absorb heavy metals, and in this case Helvella Spadicea is in the lead. Collects very large amounts of Nic...

Hemileccinum depilatum - A scalloped scallop, a rare edible mushroom, where does the name come from?

17 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure $0.07

  The name of the folded fawn comes from its structure. The mushroom has characteristic folds on the cap, and as a young fruiting body it is dark brown, chestnut, and when it matures, its cap fades to ocher, ocher yellow. The cap can be up t...

Another, but delayed, season of Cerioporus squamosus

14 Jun 2025 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68 $0.12

Kolejny, ale opóźniony sezon żagwi łuskowatej (Cerioporus squamosus) I have been observing this type of mushroom for many years in the same place. It grows on an old dead willow and it is beautiful to watch its growth, which is visible from day to da...

What mushrooms can I visit our kitchen at the beginning of summer? There are several controversial genres

13 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure $0.10

  Saffron ringless amanita The next weekend walks in the June forest bring more and more edible mushroom species. One of the first edible toadstools is the yellowish toadstool. It can be found in June in deciduous forests in sunny, warm pl...

Common Stinkhorn - for some creatures like Chanel perfumes

12 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure $0.08

  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...

Freckled dapperling - even an experienced mushroom picker may have doubts

9 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure $0.08

  At first glance, most mushroom pickers would say that it is parasol mushroom, only still young, undeveloped. And it actually looks almost identical with a slight difference. The Freckled dapperling is characteristic for its hat with distin...

Conditionally edible mushroom - Mica cap

7 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure $0.08

  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...