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Sulfur tuft Top Model 2025, or mushrooms on the catwalk

1 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  This was my first association when I saw these beauties "parading" on a cut spruce trunk. There are not many creatures in nature that look beautiful throughout their lives. Mushrooms are such an example. Their lives are short-lived, but the...

Fascinating mushroom shapes - Helvella crisp

28 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The mushroom can reach a size of up to 13-15 cm in height (about 11 cm can be on a leg). The hat, although it is sometimes difficult to separate, can be up to 5 cm in diameter. Its shape may be associated a bit with a real women's hat, bea...

Fascinating mushroom shapes - Lycoperdon perlatum

26 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Lycoperdon perlatum - Mushroom of various shapes. Spherical at first, later it becomes pear-shaped, club-shaped or capitate, with a narrowed lower part - a leg. Height from 40 to 80 mm and width from 20 to 50 mm. The surface of the fruiting...

Fascinating mushroom shapes - Ramaria eumorpha (Pine coral)

25 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The mushroom is about 2 to 6 cm wide and up to 10 cm high. Branched, bushy shape, with thin, densely arranged twigs growing from the base. The twigs usually grow vertically and are quite even. They can have different colors from pale yellow...

Coprinellus disseminatus - a coven of witches on a rotten tree

24 Feb 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The hat is smooth, curly, bell-shaped with a diameter of up to 12 mm. color coffee with milk, light brown, brown, yellowish-gray, white-gray, darkening with age. It is quite thin and delicate, translucent in older fruiting bodies, with fin...

Poisonous mushrooms in the world - Cortinarius semisanguineus (Surprise Webcap)

23 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Cortinarius semisanguineus (Surprise Webcap) - The diameter of the hat can reach 6 cm. When the fruiting body is young it has a bell-shaped, hemispherical, arched shape. It opens with age and becomes outstretched, with a small tapered hump....

Fascinating mushroom shapes - warted puffball, wolf farts or the devil's snuff-box

22 Feb 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Healing properties - natural medicine Young fruiting bodies, mixed and seasoned to taste, can be made into a food paste that helps in the treatment of anemia. Mixed young mushrooms can be used for compresses difficult to heal wounds, acne,...

Autumn mushrooms of Europe - Blue roundhead

21 Feb 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Stropharia caerulea (Blue roundhead). The cap of this species of mushroom can reach up to 10 cm in diameter. In youth it has the shape of a bell, a cone becomes semicircular with age, and even convex in old age. The color of the hat is mos...

Autumn arboreal mushrooms - Cinnabar polypore

20 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Pycnoporus cinnabarinus - Cinnabar polypore has a hat, which is usually flattened, semicircular, sometimes resembling a kidney. Width up to 12 cm, thickness can reach 5 cm. The color of the upper side of the hat is most often bright, orange...

Tree mushrooms - Trembling Merulius or jelly rot

18 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Merulius tremellosus (trembling Merulius or jelly rot) - annual mushroom growing horizontally. A single fruit body has a diameter of up to 5 cm and a thickness of about 0.5 cm. It joins with other individuals to form flaps with wavy shell...