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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...

Autumn tree mushrooms - Smoky polypore or smoky bracket

11 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Smoky polypore or smoky bracket (Bjerkandera adusta), one-year-old arboreal mushroom, without a stem. His hat has decorative sides, is tiled, in the shape of plates, sometimes it is outstretched and blends with other individuals. The hat h...

Edible mushrooms of the world - Black trumpet

10 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Horn of plenty, Black chanterelle or Black trumpet (Craterellus cornucopioides) - The mushroom can reach a size of up to 120 mm in height and 60 mm in diameter. It has a characteristic shape of a funnel, a trumpet. The trumpet is hollow, a...

Schizophyllum commune - medicinal mushroom with anti-cancer properties

8 Feb 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Schizophyllum commune - The cap of the fungus can reach a diameter of up to 40 mm. The color of the hat is most often gray-white with shades of pink and beige. In a few cases it becomes olive green. The fungus does not have a shaped foot,...

Chaga (Inonotus Obliquus) - medicinal mushroom

7 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  (Inonotus Obliquus) The Chaga, or the popular name Czaga, is a fungus from the spider family. It is a parasite of mostly deciduous trees, and its favorite type of tree is birch. The fungus is thin and flat and attacks the tree from the ins...

Edible mushrooms of the world - Fairy fan (Spathularia flavida)

6 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Yellow earth tongue, the Yellow fan, or the Fairy fan, Spathularia flavida - Mushroom from the helmish family (Rhytismatales), has a separate leg and head, reaches a height of up to 8 cm. The head is mostly spatulate, folded, fan-shaped, ye...

Autumn mushroom with a garlic smell - Mycetinis prasiosmus

4 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Mycetinis prasiosmus is a mushroom from the lamellar family. His hat is about 3 cm in diameter. The color of the hat is brown, translucent, slightly ribbed, lighter at the edges. During a dry aura it becomes whitish, faded. Gills light b...

Mushrooms with unusual colors - Parrot Toadstool or Parrot Waxcap

3 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Why is it called Parrot Toadstool or Parrot Waxcap? Skąd nazwa Wilgotnica Papuzia? The very first look brings to mind a bird. The color of these mushrooms is surprisingly similar to that of a parrot, it is very varied and variable. The a...

Mushrooms like sea anemones - Clavaria argillacea

2 Feb 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The mushroom does not have a separate hat, it consists only of a long club-shaped leg. The mushroom structure resembles sea anemones. Clavaria argillacea is usually yellow, yellow-orange, clay in color. It grows in small clusters. The club...