Fungi 2012

[Hoy]

40 years I've never tasted that

I just read somebody had tested 40 years old milk stored in a bog (it's the old way to store fish) and it was still drinkable I would prefer some of the brown stuff.

[ronm]

I thought this was a particularly nice group of Ganoderma sp., bracket fungus. If this is sp. G. applanantum, The Artists Conch, then it is the one, ( according to some ), responsible for the loss of the famous Anne Frank Horsechestnut tree, Aesculus hippocastanum in Amsterdam. Others blame a moth ( Cameraria ohridella ),... some blame both!!

[Maggi Young]

We've just been discussing a really superb bracket fungus that is on a tree on the Aberden ring road. It is a cracker!
Not a very handy spot to get a photo, I'm afraid... and anyway, it's quite high up the tree. We hope that will at least protect it from some eejit thwacking it off.

[Rogan]

Nothing at all special really, just a puffball in the woods...   

[Maggi Young]

Neat thing - we call those "earthstars"

[ronm]

I thought this was a lovely little woodland scene.

[Hoy]

Neat thing - we call those "earthstars"

Yes, in Norw. "jordstjerne" which means the same

[Hoy]

I thought this was a lovely little woodland scene.

Are you sure it isn't made by Walt Disney Co to Snow White?

[Olga Bondareva]

Nothing at all special really, just a puffball in the woods...   

For me it's special! I've never saw it here. A very interesting object for shooting.

Some mushrooms from yesterday's hunting.
For eating:

Leccinum sp.


Macrolepiota procera, umbrella-fungi


For photographing:

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa


Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa and unknown fungi

 

[Oron Peri]

Fantastic photos [as usual] Olga

[Olga Bondareva]

Where are all mushroom hunters? It's the best time now!

Lactarius deterrimus





Garden  Armillariella mellea

[ronm]

Great pictures Olga. 
It has been so warm and dry here for weeks, nothing new is showing itself. There are many species due to fruit soon ( if it ever properly rains  ), so I'll certainly be foraging and picturing when they do.

[Pauli]

Very dry here, so nearly no mushrooms after a good start in July.
Here a nice scene in a park (Boletus sp.)

[ronm]

Are they one of the edible Boletus sp. Pauli, and if so are they still there??

[Pauli]

They are still there,  so .....