first summer mushrooms - MyPictureDay submission

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Hola, setero! Today I share some fresh mushroom impressions I brought from the short trip to my countryside place. I didnt visit forest, just the garden and the abandoned area around it. And, believe me or not, it prepared quite a lot of mushrooms for me!

I think these visuals will go naturally for @timsaid's My Picture Day challenge, which I considered to enter quite a while.

I already told the 1st part of the story yesterday: it was a short 3-day visit to our countryside house, visit full of labour, leizure hours of macro-hunting were not expected, so I intentionally left the camera at home... but lended my wife's Xiaomi smartphone (I simply couldnt resist to take some nice pictures of the stuff I've met).

The area was flooded with snails, they were everywhere, under each leaf. But today my post is dedicated to the mushrooms.

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And it was a nice experience of trying to create macro shots with smartphone. (I did so many shitphotos! and some of the plots 100% were not possible to shoot, for example some bugs sitting in the grass, smart's AI simply refused to see what I saw there, preferring to watch grass, instead of a bug... Now, having this experience, I really have far better admiration to the guys, who bring quality macros made with smartphones -- that is not an easy task, no way!)

There was a little spot, the spruce stump where I discovered some tree mushrooms last summer, I checked it again -- and voyla! now the plantation have grown much more.

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I definitely will spend some hours with dedicated macro lens, trying to capture these beautiful textures and shapes in a best possible way.

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But these shots look good too, arent they?

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Especially the one with the dews. Probably you are in the know: this is not the dew-after-rain, these drops can be seen on mushrooms during the hot weather, too. The reason they are there is, that mushroom produce some excessive moisture, and these 'tears' is the way to get rid of it.

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Finally I was able to find this 'Judas Ear' jelly shroom (doesnt look sympatico, I admit... but it is edible!)

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I have a strong suspicion that many of us have found it too... just passed it by, dont thinking this sh**t is worth any attention. It is really not easy to notice; I was checking all the big aspen branches lying on the ground, and after 6-8 efforts I found this copy, and also the Polypora on the photo below.

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This is a last year's mushroom, I think, it wintered under the snow -- the fresh growing ones will have milky-white colour. I consider it may be Lenzites Betulina or one of its close relatives.

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I also found tiny shrooms that are not puff-balls.

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I identified them as Lycogala epidendrum (in Russian Ликогала древесинная, она же Волчье молоко, or Wolf's Milk). It appeared just in two steps from our closet, and 6 steps from our compost heap. What else can I add? I do have high hopes for latrines, in terms of interesting mushrooms :)

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All of the images taken by me, with smartphone Redmi Note 7
Now its time to part ways, I wish you good luck -- and Good Hunting!


oh, and Happy Fungi Friday to you!

#FungiFriday fun challenge is hold by @EwkaW

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!

A little bonus: little toad my baby have acquainted with on that day. Sympatico!

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The drops are a beautiful capture , and on top as a present a frog, and did you kiss him ?

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no, I didnt, but my baby enjoyed touching him very, very much!

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Mushrooms do have the best textures to photograph and you did great!

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a warm thank you. @sunscape. I hope to spend two next months there, with a decent camera and lenses, and surely will do my best and get more mushrooms and better macros. these are just .... lets say, a lucky clicks :P

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The orange ones remind me of Pycnoporus cinnabarinus. That crust mold looks familiar as well I'm sure its somewhere on this website http://www.wisconsinmushrooms.com/CrustsParchments.html

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maybe, this one? listened as unidentified :)

http://www.wisconsinmushrooms.com/UnknownWeepingCrust.html

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Darn I hate it when that happens lol.

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anyway, I enjoyed that section of a site! very enjoyable.

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I would redesign that site to show the picture next to each link, would make things so much easier.

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You still did good despite it was only a mobile phone camera them mushrooms tear drops look amazing it didn't know mushrooms cried...lol 🤣

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didn't know mushrooms cried...lol 🤣

@bigsambucca -- they cry cause it is a cruel, cruel world
there is so many hunters around, for the tasty or medicinal shrooms xD

TNKS for kind words, and stopping by!

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Lol...poor mushrooms well they have a reason to cry then 🤣 but we do love our mushrooms 👍

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I love that shot with the waterdrops - looks really cool, my friend, but edible or not, if you showed me these mushrooms before you cook them I don't think I could eat it - maybe a bit, but just to be polite to the cook 😉


!tip
Cheers and !BEER

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haha! did you consider they were crying, scared that I approach them with a knife and a pot and cruel gastronomical Intentions? no, I approached with the camera only. (I Hope, the time will come later for knife-Hunting visits to the forest). They cry cause they have excess of water, and need to get rid of it. as simple as that!

these tree ones are not soft, I am not sure how they shall be used when they are useful -- perhaps, as a powder, or bouillon, for medicinal purposes, but not directly for eating. they are too Hard and too 'wooden' for the teeth

let me share some !BEER with you, too. and thanks for the tips!

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I meant the other mushrooms - I would never have thought the 'Judas Ear' jelly shroom were edible ;)
Thanks for the lection and thanks a lot for the !BEER @qwerrie 🙂

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well... I 146% agree with you on this! until I will be starving, I prefer to keef myself at some distance from it :))

!BEER

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146% how did you calculate that? 😉 lol
Good morning my friend, I hope you are doing well and your move to your Summer living place takes progress


Cheers and !BEER

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AI simply refused to see what I saw there, preferring to watch grass, instead of a bug...

Yeah I been there! But you did a wonderful job with the cell phone!
And found such interesting subjects, the "Lenzites Betulina or one of its close relatives" looks extraordinary covering the branch like that.

More incredible surprises from the fungi world.

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