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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Hans J on April 18, 2010, 05:56:40 PM
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Hi all Fungi fans
the season for fungi has opened here today - here are two pics ( made from my wife ) from her first excursion :
Mitrophora semilibera
Disciotis venosa
Enjoy
Hans
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Is the first one an edible morel?
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Yes Lesley :D
But my wife found only this one ....
The other fungi is also edible - it has also a similar taste like a morel !
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Hans, your wife's photos make the first fungi look beautiful and so tempting - maybe some recipe ideas would be good on Cooks Corner with links from his thread?
I just wish I knew more about them as there are plenty to be found here in the Swiss Alps and in Liguria, Italy, where we visit and walk.
Are these fungi in the photos growing in beech woodland?
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Thank you Robin :D
OK - I will tell it my wife !
I know only she has it cooking for a long time and she told me the taste is exquisit ( also similar like morel)
The places where this fungi grows is a wet area near the river Rhein ( we live here in the Rhein valley ) -I dont know if this fungi also grow in your area or in Liguria.
It is a mixed wood - not only beeches .
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Thanks for your reply,Hans, will look out for your next posting
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Congratulations Hans! You opened mushroom season!
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Thank you Olga .....but it was not me ;)
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Now after a lot of rain is now a really good season for fungi ( but this is the only good thing ) and so has my wife startet today a new excursion .....
Here some founds :
Calocybe gambosa
Lyophyllum loricatum
Coprinus micaeus
Also interesting plants :
Orchis purpurea
and the best ....
a young fox ( 30 cm long )
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Good to see more and such diverse fungi and to have them named Hans - some special meals to enjoy I imagine whilst it's too wet to be in the garden - plenty of rain here too :D
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Thanks Robin :D
but this excursion was not for searching of eating fungi .....this group of fungi specialists looking for all kind ...
Only
Calocybe gambosa
Lyophyllum loricatum
are edible .... :-\
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Thanks Robin :D
but this excursion was not for searching of eating fungi .....this group of fungi specialists looking for all kind ...
Out of interest Hans, is this for research or pleasure?
Only
Calocybe gambosa
Lyophyllum loricatum
are edible .... :-\
Good to know
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Robin ,
my wife has since long times a lot of interest for fungi -before some times she found contact to some really specialist and she goes regulary to this excursions to learn...this peoples knows all about fungi !!!
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Jippyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
today first Boletus for this season :D
this is Boletus aestivalis ( the summer variant )
mmmmhhhhh ....maybe Risotto con Fungi Porcini :P
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Dreamt about it - did you have Risotto con Fungi Porcini, Hans?
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Robin :
No ....they are now in the freezer ....Risotto comes later !
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This 'village' of fungi (photo 1) popped up in the garden yesterday.
The second 'village' is a photo from January 2007 that I had saved.
I have no idea what they were or if they were edible - too late now anyway.
Graham
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They're very attractive with that outside ribbing. :)
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I started my fungi season after months of heat and dryness. Mushrooms of many species are now at the forest.
Lactarius deterrimus
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Boletus edulis, Suillus luteus, Lactarius deterrimus, Leccinum scabrum, Chroogomphus rutilus - a first pail of spoil a few days ago.
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And some myxomycetes and other strange fungi.
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That's a fabulous picture with the spider on the fungus - looks like a frozen landscape :D
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And some myxomycetes and other strange fungi.
Very strange indeed Olga, but really extraordinary pictures !!! 8) 8) 8)
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The last pics Hericium coralloides and most likely Lycogala epidendrum in the third pic.
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Your pictures are fantastic as always Olga and I, and I'm sure everyone else, am very happy to have you back on the Forum with us. We had been worried about the Russian fires. I hope you and all our Russian friends are well and not damaged in any way.
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Olga,
the last 2 photos: is it already christmas time? ;D
Fantastic images 8) :o 8)
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Beautiful images Olga.
Two images captured in late August.
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Cliff, Armin, Lesley, Luc, Panu and Peter,
Thank you! :)
I like most of all coral fungi to.
Lesley, fires went far from my village. I was really shocked when heard about your earthquake.
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Some yesterday pics.
I like to shoot Trichia decipiens (small red heads). It is so sunny and joyful.
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Truly, Olga, these myxomycetes photos are fascintaing and very beautiful. I am astounded at their range of shapes and colours. An education, thank you. :)
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And Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
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Great pictures as usual, Olga. I also see Lycogala epidendron in there, a fairly common species which we call Wolf's milk here.
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And Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
Lycogala epidendron
Yes! Since last year I've forgot some names. :-\
Maggi, :-*
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Crying mushroom
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Pearls hunter. :) Do not know what does this ant do with fungi.
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Romaria sp.
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Armillariella mellea
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Chroogomphus rutilus. Interesting edible fungi becomes purple after boiling.
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Two images captured in late August.
Cliff the colour and shape of the fungi you captured make a great photo :D
I have tried to take some locally and it is really difficult to get the focus and perspective right - let alone the light
Meanwhile Olga is Queen of the fungi photo - each one so full of character, so captivating, so amazing in close up 8)
thanks to you both :)
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Chroogomphus rutilus: We have that one here too and call it rabarbrasopp (Rhubarb mushroom)...
Fantastic picture of Honey Fungus (Armillaria)!
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Just got back from Quinta Arboretum (near Congleton, Cheshire) ... a few images captured during the two hours we spent there.
It is an amazing place, with trees growing in the middle of a mere; an early array of fungi; avenues of trees; aged trees that feature drapes of wood and timber caverns ...
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Spooky kind of place, Cliff.... somebody left their eye on that lichen limb....... :o
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I'm sure i can see a Boars head in the tree mask,its pointing towards the sky.
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I'm sure I can see a Boar's head in the tree mask,it's pointing towards the sky.
On the right hand side? Yes!! I can see it too 8)
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Are you two psychic? ... here are two oak rhino images from today (and a few others) ...
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lots of wonderful images here--glad i can see olga's this year, must have been a browser issue that prevented me in the past..
cliff--wonderful place!
here are some from around here--many of them are right in my non-lawn, explaining the preponderance of clover and dandelions!
others are into the woods on my 6 acres, and a few farther out onto the farm--i'll probably put a few of the wider context shots in my alberta wanderings thread...
this first is one of the oddest things i have seen--like mouldy velvet, or elephant skin with algae growing on it! i didn't smell anything (didn't try hard) but there were bugs around them-including what seemed to be our common black scavenger beetles underneath them...
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Umbrella fungi
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And it's fried
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Cohan, sometimes fungi dies beautifully. :)
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Cohan, sometimes fungi dies beautifully. :)
true :)
these last little ones with the 'optic fibres' are wild!
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some more from here; these are mostly in my yard, and in the edges of the woods just beyond..i don't know what any of them are..
full albums here:
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cactuscactus/September162010FungiA#
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full set,
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cactuscactus/September162010FungiA#
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album:
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cactuscactus/September162010FungiA#
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Great fungifotos everyone. My daughter's camera that I share, is terrible in low light conditions (overcast today and drizzling), but I went ahead and snapped photos of some psychedelic fungi grow on top and the sides of a huge Red Oak stump. The fungi is bright yellow and orange, as large as full heads of cauliflower. I have no idea about what it is.
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those are some spectacular ones, mark! congrats on the drizzle ;D hope there is more moisture with it!
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those are some spectacular ones, mark! congrats on the drizzle ;D hope there is more moisture with it!
Thanks Cohan. I wasn't sure what was happening, I felt these tiny cool drops coming down from the sky, very strange... then it all came back to me... I thought, maybe this is that stuff they call rain? ;D ;D
I think mother nature is toying with us, holding back any real rain... just mist.
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Umbrella fungi
And it's fried
Tasty - yes, a good edible! I actually got back from a work trip to England, but I had time to visit Kew Gardens and I took these pictures of what we call Parasoll-sopp....I was very tempted, but kept my hands off:
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Cohan, sometimes fungi dies beautifully. :)
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A fungi growing on a fungi! Our Boletus edulis are often infected with another fungus which make them inedible!
I wonder if there exist fungi that grow on fungi that grow on fungi? ::)
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those are some spectacular ones, mark! congrats on the drizzle ;D hope there is more moisture with it!
Thanks Cohan. I wasn't sure what was happening, I felt these tiny cool drops coming down from the sky, very strange... then it all came back to me... I thought, maybe this is that stuff they call rain? ;D ;D
I think mother nature is toying with us, holding back any real rain... just mist.
hah! and i felt something similar when the sun came out after a couple of dim weeks in september--what is that light and warmth coming from above?
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Great fungifotos everyone. My daughter's camera that I share, is terrible in low light conditions (overcast today and drizzling), but I went ahead and snapped photos of some psychedelic fungi grow on top and the sides of a huge Red Oak stump. The fungi is bright yellow and orange, as large as full heads of cauliflower. I have no idea about what it is.
How do you know it's psychedelic, Mark? ;)
I was wondering if it was chicken of the woods - a common and much sought after edible mushroom (that supposedly tastes like chicken) - it's found on oaks in the eastern US. I've no experience with it, so don't take my word for it - you never know, it might be psychedelic....
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Great fungifotos everyone. My daughter's camera that I share, is terrible in low light conditions (overcast today and drizzling), but I went ahead and snapped photos of some psychedelic fungi grow on top and the sides of a huge Red Oak stump. The fungi is bright yellow and orange, as large as full heads of cauliflower. I have no idea about what it is.
How do you know it's psychedelic, Mark? ;)
I was wondering if it was chicken of the woods - a common and much sought after edible mushroom (that supposedly tastes like chicken) - it's found on oaks in the eastern US. I've no experience with it, so don't take my word for it - you never know, it might be psychedelic....
Well, it's psychedelic looking, and after crouching in close proximity to these fungicraniums I drifted off into an induced dream state... weird.
Chicken of the Woods eh? Looked it up, and yes there is such a thing, sort of looks like the one in the following link (other great photos in that link). But you're not going to get me to try it!
http://www.richard-seaman.com/USA/States/Illinois/VoloBog/index.html
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Excellent photos, everyone. I need a better camera!!!!! :o These are all absolutely brilliant!
Thanks again.
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A fungi growing on a fungi!
Yes! It happens. :)
Our Boletus edulis are often infected with another fungus which make them inedible!
I've never seen that! Does Boletus become not tasty?
I wonder if there exist fungi that grow on fungi that grow on fungi? ::)
I hope so to make an image. :D
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Tasty - yes, a good edible! I actually got back from a work trip to England, but I had time to visit Kew Gardens and I took these pictures of what we call Parasoll-sopp....I was very tempted, but kept my hands off:
Good umbrellas! :D
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I found another fungi growing on fungi. First I thought it is wool of white animal. But it is fungi!
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So, what does one call a fungi that grows on a fungi. ( a very funny guy)
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Mark,
That's Laetiporus sulphureus, a very good edible when fresh which that one looks to be. The softer margins are really the best part to eat.
Boletus sp here in the eastern US are usually infected by Hypomyces spp. It is hard to get them early enough without finding the little larvae in them also. I would assume it is the same everywhere else. Our Cantharellus get an Astero... something infection when they get older.
I am a bit of a fungivore, but I have not had much time since August to collect. In June and July I did collect about 6 pounds (ca. 2.6 kilos) of Cantharellus species, a few Lactarius indigo, and some Boletus species.
Aaron
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So, what does one call a fungi that grows on a fungi. ( a very funny guy)
A just for fun guy?
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So, what does one call a fungi that grows on a fungi. ( a very funny guy)
A just for fun guy?
Bob Hope?
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My today's harvest.
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Olga,
I particularly like that last one. Must be amazing in the full size image. :o
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I like that one too Paul, as if the fungus had pulled a little hat over to keep itself dry. But as always, Olga's images are superb. (So too, Olga, are 6 pin-prick size little seedlings of what can only be Saxifragas. The first of many I hope, visible yesterday. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.)
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6 pin-prick size little seedlings of what can only be Saxifragas.
Great! :D
Every day I go to the forest in spite of the work. Beautiful weather! Not many mushrooms but still some edible and some shootable. :)
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Olga wonderful pictures again 8)
Angie :)
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In this week's Bulb Log , Ian has pictures of a fungus.... a mycorrhizal fungus......
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2010Oct061286367062BULB_LOG__4010.pdf
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Wow Maggi never mind the picture of the mycorrhizal fungus in Ian's bulb log that picture of the hoverfly is amazing the detail in that picture is breathtaking.
Angie :)
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Impressive photos, well done. I don't know what happened but my post got preempted and the attachments lost-This is a repost
I have found in my crevice bed here in northern Illinois a fungus that I wish to call upon you knowledgeable folks to aid in identifying. They have appeared spontaneously in the bed which is pure coarse sand. Thus far I have found six specimens allowing two to grow out of curiosity. They are enlarging but not rapidly. Puff ball fungi are somewhat common in our local woods. These look more like truffles, hard, solid interiors. Any ideas?
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(So too, Olga, are 6 pin-prick size little seedlings of what can only be Saxifragas. The first of many I hope, visible yesterday. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.)
15 by yesterday! ;D
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Here is a starry fungus which I saw at Victoria's Cloudhill Nursery 3 weeks ago. An idenitification please?
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It's an Earthstar Lesley (no idea of latin name). I'd not seen them until this year, when we had some appear in our garden here. Ours though had the central ball sit up on a stem, out of the star. The same, but different to the Cloudehill ones. ;D
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Lesley, wow it's a starry mushroom! I know it grows here to but I've never seen it. It's very rare, congratulations!
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Frog's dinner. :)
(fungus Crucibulum laeve)
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Big family...
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Bob,
your fungus is a mystery. I've no idea.
If it is coarse sand what does it feed from?
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Olga your 'Frog's Dinner' is an absolutely enchanting shot beautifully caught by you and I love the 'Big Family' of fungus too.
Isn't it amazing that you can even go to the same place in the forest and see so many different things appearing one after another in the Seasons :D
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Olga your 'Frog's Dinner' is an absolutely enchanting shot beautifully caught by you and I love the 'Big Family' of fungus too.
Isn't it amazing that you can even go to the same place in the forest and see so many different things appearing one after another in the Seasons :D
I totally agree Robin ... superb images from a master photographer!
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Hi all, can anyone tell me why I have so many puff balls here they are everywher, I know the weather has been wet but this is a bit much, cheers Ian the christie kind
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Frog's dinner. :)
(fungus Crucibulum laeve
Big family...
great shots!
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Hi all, can anyone tell me why I have so many puff balls here
Can't tell you why but a friend of mine has lots and sells them to her local restaurant - gets quite a good price for them!
Interesting puffball link here - http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Mushrooms.Folder/Puffball%20Overview.html
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Interesting that they're edible. If I'm reading it correctly, as long as it is still pure white inside then they can do you no harm? But once they start to go yellow or if they have a slime layer or gills inside then you shouldn't eat them? Sounds like they're good in cooking, but are they eaten raw as well, like normal mushrooms?
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Re- Puffballs, I've eaten them a lot and really like them, but I always cook them. You do have to be very CAREFUL though, because to the unexperienced a puffball can be mistaken for the DESTROYING ANGEL and DEATH CAP. You won't get a chance of learning from your experiences. See the comparison towards the bottom of this page (both are also found in Europe):
http://americanmushrooms.com/edibles3.htm (http://americanmushrooms.com/edibles3.htm)
By the way, it has been advised here not to eat ordinary mushrooms raw due to some suspect chemicals which are heat sensitive and the possibility of pathogens from the growing medium (manure).
Fantastic pictures again, Olga - I have a picture of a Frog next to a puffball taken in Fiji many years ago, but no scanner (slide)!
Here's a mixed bag from the woods with a puffball, bottom left:
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Had a bit of an invasion. I think the beech logs probably have something to do with them.
Graham
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Had a bit of an invasion. I think the beech logs probably have something to do with them.
Graham
Yikes, that's scary! Do you know whether they are edible?
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Could be what we call Stubbeskjellsopp (literally Stump Shell Mushroom) or in English, the Sheathed Woodtuft - see here for a description and close up of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuehneromyces_mutabilis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuehneromyces_mutabilis); although edible, it's not recommended due again to a poisonous look-alike...
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I generally don't eat anything that doesn't come out of a supermarket ;)
Graham
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I generally don't eat anything that doesn't come out of a supermarket ;)
Graham
Now, that's scary! I generally don't eat anything that does come out of a supermarket! :)
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Had a bit of an invasion. I think the beech logs probably have something to do with them.
Graham
Graham we get those in hundreds around the stump of an old apple we had cut down. After a couple of days we find they disintegrate into a mass of slime before disappearing.
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Had a bit of an invasion. I think the beech logs probably have something to do with them.
Graham
Graham we get those in hundreds around the stump of an old apple we had cut down. After a couple of days we find they disintegrate into a mass of slime before disappearing.
Hi Tony,
They are now black and shriveling. I think they will be slime by the morning. As yours appear around your apple stump they must be connected to rotting trees.
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Robin, Cliff, Cohan,
Thank you!
Ian
They are edible until they are white inside. But it could be dangerous to inhale their puff.
Graham
Your mushrooms look very impressive and… beautiful. :) I don’t think you have to do anything with them. Such kind of fungi grows on died wood not on leaving.
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Pas de trois. :)
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The last harvest
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Although not in my garden, I nevertheless thought it was interesting to post, a fungus that seems to come straight from the land of the Smurfs..... It photographed it at 2000 meter altitude in Taiwan growing in a coniferous forest
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Had a bit of an invasion. I think the beech logs probably have something to do with them.
Graham
Graham we get those in hundreds around the stump of an old apple we had cut down. After a couple of days we find they disintegrate into a mass of slime before disappearing.
Hi Tony,
They are now black and shriveling. I think they will be slime by the morning. As yours appear around your apple stump they must be connected to rotting trees.
Managed to find a picture of mine from last year.There were even more this year but they do not seem a problem and only last a few days
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Pas de trois. :)
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Set to Tchaikovsky? :)
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We're having a mild spell after a very cold period with sub-zero temperatures day and night over several days. This doesn't affect the Winter Chantarelles (today's haul pictured) which are now at their peak although not as numerous as normal. I even found a few Chantarelles and Hedgehog fungi.
Most of these will be dried for use during the winter.
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Puffballs are quite good. I have never thought about confusing them with the deadly ones - I find them so different in surface texture - but anyway if they are solid inside they are all right. I slice them thinly and fry in butter to a kind of chips.
Olga. You are the queen of photographers!
This was another bad season for fungi in my place - perhaps the boars took a lot.
Cheers
Göte
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These big yellow fungi are cropping up in the garden under a large white spruce, they are about 5-6" across (12.5-15 cm). I sometimes find them ripped up or broken apart, presumably from squirrels.
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Here is a pic of the true Tuber magnatum .....the most expensiv of all truffes ( this fungi comes from Piemont /Italy )
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see
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6201.0 (http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6201.0)
for details about the new Hygrocybe identification guide - simply stunning.
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A month ago in Corfu I photographed a few fungi species, I have been told by a Greek friend that the first is Lepiota griseovirens, the next is Tremella mesenterica but no clues on the last two. Can any mycologists out there identify them?
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These big yellow fungi are cropping up in the garden under a large white spruce, they are about 5-6" across (12.5-15 cm). I sometimes find them ripped up or broken apart, presumably from squirrels.
Looks like an Amanita species, Mark (judging by the ring which is falling off of this specimen, the warts on the cap and the gills showing through on the edge of the cap). There's actually a yellow form of the familiar red and white Fly Agaric.