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Klimawindungen (1/2)

Den Klimawandel gibt es nicht.
Und wenn es ihn gäbe,
dann ist er nicht menschengemacht.
Und wenn er menschengemacht wäre,
dann ist er nicht schlecht für uns.
Und wenn er schlecht für uns wäre,
dann können wir ihn sowieso nicht aufhalten.
November 10, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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Kneesvember 2024 Day 1
November 2, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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For the third consecutive year my parents have clouded funnels (Clitocybe nebularis) in their flower beds. I even might be lucky enough to find Volvariella surrecta again.
#fungifriends
5 quite young greyish-brown fruiting bodies of Clitocybe nebularis between leaf litter. You can even see little fuzzy patches of white mycelium. Under a dark green yew shrub 6 greyish-brown fruiting bodies of Clitocybe nebularis grow out of brown leaf litter. Their hats still have a half-spherical form.
October 24, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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Including this autumn I found at least 10 to 20 different mushroom species in my neighbour's garden with at least one pine, spruce, beech, chestnut, oak, walnut, cherry, apple, pear and fir tree. I really wish to be able to own a similar garden one day. Don't need a perfectly trimmed 1-species lawn.
October 17, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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I was pretty surprised how many Lactarius deterrimus/deliciosus(?) grew in my neighbour's 30-year-old garden. He was fine with me, picking these.
I hold a light orange mushroom with gils between my fingers. Where I bruised the stem, its colour darkened. Its stem is hollow and white on the inside. An upside down mushroom with gills. Where I cut the gills, you can see orange milk. The stem has a white cover with orange dents. My basket with about 30 lactarius mushrooms. You can see the difference between the two species in the cross-section of their stem. Lactarius deterrimus has a smooth, hollow orange stem. Its cross-section stays bright orange. Lactarius deliciosus stem is whiter with orange dents and its cross-section turns wine red. A leave covered meadow with a bunch of light orange and slightly green Lactarius deterrimus.
October 17, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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Finally found enough half-free morels (M. semilibera) to cook them. It was pretty tasty. They don't quite taste like they smell, but still keep a semblance of that aroma. A nice reward for searching in ankle-high undergrowth with a stick.

🌍 Morchella semilibera
🇬🇧 Half-free morel
🇩🇪 Käppchenmorchel
A finger high half-free morel with a grainy, creamy stem and a darkbrown, pointy cap with darker ridges. Another semi-free morel with a grainy, creamy stem and a brown, pointy cap. It has a honey-comb like structure, but not quite honey-comb like as Morchella esculenta is. A handfull of halfed caps of half-free morels. I cut off the stems, where the caps end, and washed them to get rid off sand, dirt and critters I missed. A reduced, brown sauce with cut onions, morels, vegetable broth, salt, pepper and cream. It's still bubbling in the picture.
April 6, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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🍄📷 They usually grow on the bottom of oaks.
🇩🇪Leberreischling
🇬🇧Beefsteak polypore
🌍Fistulina hepatica
Fistulina hepatica's meat red cap. White spores on leaf litter. Fistulina hepaticas pores are pale yellow and change colour when bruised. Another F. hepatica with a purple-/scarletred greasy cap.
October 14, 2023 at 7:03 PM
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Pilzwanderung Brandenberg 14.10.2023

Im Folgenden Bilder einiger Funde, B!=Text des Posts.

1. Fliegenpilz 🍄📷, Amanita muscaria
October 14, 2023 at 3:33 PM
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I'm rich!
Dozens of open Cyathus striatus on wood chips. A wood stick with three Cathus striatus (1 closed, 1 partially open, 1 fully open.)
October 14, 2023 at 6:36 PM
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Always wear your brown/red cap, when mushroom foraging.
Two little brown caps with dark, finely coarsed stems on either side of the picture on grass. A single redcap with a rustbrown cap and rustbrown finely coarsed stem.
October 14, 2023 at 5:53 PM
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Lycoperdon perlatum with a cup-shaped fungi
2 white Lycoperdon perlatum with a cup-shaped mushroom at the base of one of them. It has a grey hymenium and fine brown lashes. 2 white Lycoperdon perlatum closely together. Their cone-shaped scales are very noticeable.
October 14, 2023 at 5:48 PM
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I might have lost my composure for a second or two, as I found them today.
4 Earthstars with a grey-brown bulb and a beige underside on needle litter Closeup of a earthstar with a grey-brown bulb, which has a little pore, through which spores can be released The same earthstar from the side. The greybrown bulb rests on the beige curled down underside.
October 14, 2023 at 5:39 PM
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Update:
After frying them, they tasted pretty good. A little bit sour/citrussy comparable to champignons that were fried/cooked with a bit of lemon juice. Can recommend.
chrishavingfungi.bsky.social Chris having fungi 🍄 @chrishavingfungi.bsky.social · Oct 8
🍄📷 I've found 3 of these (Gomphidius glutinosus or "Kuhmaul" in German) as well. I did remove its slime layer, but it still discoloured some of the Craterellus tubaeformis I've had in the basket. I want to fry and taste them for the first time this evening.
The purple brown, slimy hat of Gomphidius glutinosus. Gomphidius glutinosus has white, thick, rather uncrowded gills and a white stem, which base is yellow. It's covered in slime of its universal veil. This specimen has one dark slime thread barely connecting the stem and the cap margin.
October 8, 2023 at 9:56 PM
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Some waxcaps from today's mushroom foray.
A conical bright red waxcap. A small brightly red waxcap with a yellow cap margin. A little waxcap in different shades of yellow (from light yellow, citrus yellow to orange-brown) Three little convex bright red waxcaps to the left of a bigger orange-red waxcap.
October 8, 2023 at 6:41 PM
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🍄📷 I've found 3 of these (Gomphidius glutinosus or "Kuhmaul" in German) as well. I did remove its slime layer, but it still discoloured some of the Craterellus tubaeformis I've had in the basket. I want to fry and taste them for the first time this evening.
The purple brown, slimy hat of Gomphidius glutinosus. Gomphidius glutinosus has white, thick, rather uncrowded gills and a white stem, which base is yellow. It's covered in slime of its universal veil. This specimen has one dark slime thread barely connecting the stem and the cap margin.
October 8, 2023 at 3:10 PM
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🍄📷 Finally have found enough for a decent meal. 😌
A pile of Craterellus tubaeformis and Cantharellus cibarius agg. in an orange bowl on top of a digital scale. They weigh 190 g. Fried Cantharellus cibarius and Craterellus tubaeformis with onion and scrambled egg and 1/2 of a bun with margarine spread.
October 8, 2023 at 2:55 PM
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🍄📷 Sometimes you just stumble upon a group/gathering/swarm/murder (?) of one of the most deadly mushrooms next to a sidewalk: Death Caps (Amanita phalloides) with pretty visible characteristics.
Death cap viewed from the side. Noteable are the white bolbous volva and the snakeskin-like pattern at the stem base, the drooping white ring and the white gills. The base of one A. phalloides with a white volva and a snakeskin-like pattern on its stem. Two greenish brown death caps viewed frome above. One of them still has a large piece of its white universal veil ontop. Two A. phalloides dropping white spores on leaf litter.
October 5, 2023 at 6:49 PM
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In my frenzy to finish making concrete mushrooms last night I forgot to check the actual mushrooms and.... aaaaaAAAAAaaaAaAaAA 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
A huge flush of maturing, deep red wine cap mushrooms with pale tems growing on wood chips at Heart of the Forest Farm in New Hampshire USA
October 5, 2023 at 1:36 PM
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🍄📷 I've taken the second picture about 3,5 hours after the first one. That must have been a feast for these flies.
A stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus). It's head is covered with its olive green sporemass, which gets eaten by a swarm of flies. The same stinkhorn 3,5 hours later. The amount of sporemass has decreased. Its honeycomb-like shaped head became visible. There are still some flies feasting on it. Two older stinkhorns with creamy coloured honeycomb-like shaped heads and white, spongy stems.
October 5, 2023 at 12:30 PM
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Such a beautiful Bolete! #fungifriends
A bolete mushroom, aka porcini (in cooking)
October 4, 2023 at 4:49 PM
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I don’t get serious very often on this account but this is a PSA that you CANNOT rely on apps to confirm mushroom edibility and you MUST be 100% certain of your ID before you eat anything wild

Cross reference at least 3 sources including at least 1 book

Have fun foraging a stay safe friends 🙏
kbspangler.com K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · Oct 2
Good morning from the Murder Your Neighbors community website.
Yet another posting from NextDoor where someone asks for mushroom ID and their neighbors encourage them to use apps to identify if they're edible.
October 3, 2023 at 2:22 PM
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TIL of the Acromelalga Syndrome induced by ingestion of Clitocybe amoenolens or C. acromelalga.
It causes extreme pain in hands and feet, which causes repeated fainting. Apparently it's treated by induced coma until the toxin is metabolized/excreted. 😨
September 23, 2023 at 6:04 PM
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The mushroom gods heard me complaining about never finding lobster mushrooms that are good enough to eat!!!

Had a fun final walk with @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social before he headed home.

🍄📷 we really are having a great season so far
Lee extends their hand next to a lobster mushroom showing it is roughly the size of their palm A lobster mushroom grows next to several large russulas Lee holds up a small lobster mushroom showing it's pristine orange flesh
September 19, 2023 at 5:23 PM
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So, to the one naming the giant puffball "Langermannia gigantea": I see what you did there. 👀
September 19, 2023 at 3:43 PM
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Day 4 in the Bavarian Forest:
Out of the cross section of a mossy rotten tree trunk hundreds of little orange umbrella shaped mushrooms are growing. The same tree trunk cross section, but I moved the phone camera about 45 degrees to the right. 4 white opaque jelly like mushrooms, which are not bigger than the ear of a guinea pig are growing on the side of a brown-rotten mossy tree stump. A closeup of one of these white opaque jelly like mushrooms shows a toothed underside. I would visually compare it with the surface of a cat's tongue. The top of the mushroom is also not smooth, but grainy.
September 1, 2023 at 5:42 PM