#FUNGHIFRIDAY my amazing nature treasure hunt NEW WEEK #AMAZINGNATURE #3 NOVEMBER 2020
#funghifriday #fungusfriday #funkyfriday
well we have a few tags for the last day of the week. It’s Friday the 13 th so far this day is going better that the rest of the week but let’s keep it funky with a new #amazingnature blog with mushrooms in the wild. It’s fall so we have them everywhere.
A sunny, windy or rainy autumn day. The weather is always good to look for mushrooms! Do not forget to bring the following things with you when looking for mushrooms:
- Mushroom guide or search map
- Loupe - for a close-up
- Mirror - a look under the hat
- Notebook and pencil
- Thermos with coffee or tea - great for on the go!
- Camera or telephone to photograph mushrooms - then you can double check at home whether it was really that one mushroom.
I am walking the two furries so I just brought my canon and phone. Hands are to full for the other accessories but when I go without them this is a perfect checklist!
Mushrooms come in many different colors, shapes, types and sizes. But which one is actually which one? Many mushrooms look alike or come in multiple disguises. But out and about how can we / I recognize mushrooms?
Have you noticed that mushrooms all look different? Some mushrooms have many visible parts that make them easier to spot. Other mushrooms have a different shape, which gives them a less typical mushroom appearance. Mushrooms take on different shapes as they grow. For example, you may think you see a belly fungus in the grass, but it is actually a small ink fungus!
Did you know that the egg in which the giant stink fungus emerges is also called "devil's egg" or "witch's egg"? A neighbour told me on one of the dog walks when he saw my camera. From popular belief comes the assumption that the stink fungus very suddenly lays eggs from which new stink fungi appear. Especially because of that sudden element they were called devil's eggs. You can recognize and identify mushrooms with multiple senses. External characteristics are of course easy to find out. The cap of a mushroom absorbs moisture. If it has rained a lot, a hat can be much darker than the picture in a guide. The same goes the other way around, if it has been very dry, the hat is often lighter! When the kids were little we make up lepracan stories about who lived in which “ paddestoel “ as we call them in Dutch.
Here a drawing of the paddestoel
You can also feel gently on the mushroom. Does the mushroom have a slime layer or a dry hat? Are there other things that stand out when you feel? Don't forget to smell! Some mushrooms have a very recognizable smell (stink fungus!). Do you think you have found a chanterelle, take a good look under your hat. Do you see strange fold-like plates that run down the stem? Chances are that it is! It’s fun, only I am the only one that likes it so when we go to the woods or Rotterdam forest I stop so much that the rest of the family is in the restaurant already for a coffee while I am stil bending over a gorgeous white one or a “ elvenbank “ along the trunk of a tree.
Do you think you have identified a mushroom? Take a look online in a mushroom guide if it describes how the mushroom should feel or smell and check that with what you have experienced. You can also find a lot of information on the website www.allesoverpaddenwagens.nl
https://www.dewereldvankaat.be/paddenstoelen-herkennen/paddenstoelen-zoekkaart/
Last but not the least news, I read in the newspaper that Holland also has truffles in the soil.
And never forget to hold your phone under a mushroom, paddestoel or fungi to see the beautiful shapes.
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Blog Date : 13 november 2020
These mushrooms look very clean and tidy, nice hunt by the way. Love these pictures too...
https://twitter.com/Bhattg18/status/1327434927374094336
We appreciate your work and your post has been manually curated by @redheadpei on behalf of Amazing Nature Community. It will be added to the weekly botany curation post. Keep up the good work!
@redheadpei thank you so much I appreythe recognition
hello dear friend @brittandjosie good day
This is a challenge that I would love to participate in, but I do not know anything about mushrooms, however the image that you present near the end is ideal for people like me who want to learn, I really appreciate the information
great shots, congratulations
I appreciate very much that you show us these beautiful photographs and all this information
have a wonderful weekend
The nature and being in nature is a great pleasure and to blog about it is even better
Apoyando con voto y re-blog
Thank you for the reblog
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Hi @brittanjosie, I really liked your publication because besides teaching some things I didn't know about mushrooms, I found it very enjoyable. How beautiful that landscape looks, and how nice it must be to walk in the forest. Where is that forest? Mushrooms are very interesting creatures and what diversity you find, here in my country there are also many types but I think we are not in the habit of going out to observe them and neither do we eat them. Now I'm going to be more concerned about observing and smelling them. A hug and thanks for sharing this information.
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