official part

The mushroom season basically have ended at the northern hemisphere - which doesnt mean there are no mushrooms left in the forest. And of course, we can find mushrooms in our summer photo folders. Personally, I made solid stocks :P

Ok, before I start to review the intresting posts we had, a little official news / totals. This week the group is about 390 subscribers, 80 active posters, and 376 weekly interactions. Account voting power reached 1505 HP (thanks to @ocd-witness, @bambuka and @portal-xenna for their delegation). As you know from previous posts, FL is the part of @OCD community incubation program -- check the link for full details. In brief, it means @OCD encourages hiveans to post to dedicated communities by providing a nice upvotes for good posts.

Each post is getting 100% upvote from the group. You are welcome to delegate HP too, if you feel you have some extra and want to benefit for community. Feel free to follow and upvote FL posts, all rewards proceed to account HP.

We just kindly ask: go for quality, not for quantity.
No need to spam over the place with low quality posts, that will get you no readers; its pointless and waste of your lifetime. Good stuff on the contrary is getting a juicy rewards from @OCD, I hope you appreciate it (OCD discord channel, in case you have questions to ask or urged to say TY).

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@OCD- curated posts

First things first, and this time 1stly I'd like to introduce to you our great new author - @marianomariano. He is an amateur photographer from Poland, and his obsession for fungi goes back for as much as 15 years (he told me). You may imagine how big and intresting his archives are; he is capable of doing a nice new (informative!) posts on a daily basis, and is never run out of stuff to share. If only we'd venture into 'poster of the month' venture, probably @marianomariano would easily grab the prize each month (well, we dont have initiative of that kind yet). So, in case you missed it in your feed, let me head you to his posts presenting some nice fungi I had no idea about.

Clathrus archeri ʘ Mutinus caninus ʘ Mutinus ravenelii ʘ Laccaria amethystina ʘ Spinellus fusiger ʘ Lycoperdon perlatum ʘ Tarzetta catinus

His posts are much more then just nice pictures with iD - he always do a research about the certain mushroom, provides brief info where/when it could be found, edible or not, and other intresting features if thats the case.

NB. I give the list of his publications from October (November will follow soon, too!). Some of posts received curation from @OCD and @curangel, some did not, of course it is not possible to give an extra reward to every great post, especially when we have so much awesome stuff to choose from, hope you all will understand this. I am really happy you joined our community and share your knowledge with us.

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ex Croatia woods ʘ @borjan, an amateur fungi expert, artist, macro photographer, cat lover and simply a great person - finally 'opened the season' and shared his tropheys (I suspect he secretly was hoarding all the mushrooms he was finding in summer... keeping it for the wintertime). His location is Istra, Croatia, so his stuff cames from the southern Europe. His posts always not only a beautiful macro excursion into the world of fungi, but also a penetration into secret life of little buggies, touchy details of their casual life. A pleasure and delight for the eyes, my only problem with @borjan is sometimes his posts are so long that I have overload, one cannot stand so much visuals!

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wooden UFO ʘ @ridor5301 presented us bizarre wooden fungus from Indonesia rain forest, looks like a sea jelly when wet.

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hunting at Vertes mountains ʘ @kalemandra took a travel to Mór (famous for its wine region) to hunt for parasol mushrooms ("deer foot"). This mushroom is one of the most delicious and fragrant that can be found in the autumn. The result: a bag full of parasols, task was ticked! And she got a load of by product - great photos to share with us.

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@pilzolli from Germany have shared a pile of nice results from his October walks:
ʘ one ʘ two ʘ three ʘ four ʘ the last post actually was an encounter with the notorious Psilocybe Serbica, the 1st time he met it in 2020 in his amazing forest at Western Germany/Dutch border. Note, there are no IDs and no useful info on the actual fungi in the posts, but the finds are cool.

Also let me remind, he runs a 'Mushroom Growers' community dedicated to this small but important and intresting mushroom niche.

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Roughton Moor ʘ @dannewton, a great photographer and nature lover from UK, shared another of his autumn walks - this time to the Roughton Moor Wood Nature Reserve. The mushrooms were encountered, and identification took place, which is a good, viable practice, actually. Recommended!

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Jew's Ear ʘ @ewkaw presented an intresting edible fungi that you dont see too often. Auricularia auricula-judae, or Wood ear is the name. They do look very pretty with a deep dark brown colour and round shape. They occure in Europe, Asia and North America on elderberry mostly, rarely on other types of wood; appear typically in late summer and fall. Perfect fungi shots I'm in love with!

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Solo's picks

And the last one, but not the least: @solominer within the Minnow support project made his pics and curation across the FL posts. I simply could not but mention that, and send best a solid pack of thank yous back. You are always welcome, manual picks and curation are precious.

Probably I already see October's back and in the next curation digest will review some fresh November posts. October was too fruitful and unbearable, haha! Too much fungi cuteness at once may cause problems with your stomach mind well, I am not totally sure, but lets say it will be less cool, than taking carefully measured doses of visuals that are tested and recognized as safe.

And a little reminder: we have a nice fun challenge at HIVE, hold by @EwkaW

#FungiFriday!

I hope many of you will join, as there are only 2 simple rules:

• when Friday comes, share your fungi with us! post your own, original photo/drawing/art/food/anything-at-all of any type of fungi (yes, stolen images will be checked and reported !)
• add #fungifriday (not necessarily must be your 1st tag). that's all!