Hi friends!
The weekend was full, I spent it in the city and even managed to miss the countryside and wildlife. When I started writing this article while riding the train to the village (yesterday), my heart was filled with warmth. Oh, I love the forest and its ancient inhabitants, ie mushrooms. Today I want to share with you some photos that were taken during our walk last week! My mom also wrote about it, but today I will focus on inedible mushrooms) Well, what can I do if I'm a little unlucky to find edible ones.
Perhaps it is worth going somewhere further into the new forests, but I am afraid of getting lost.
I was so engrossed in photography that I lost my knife:( With its help, I immediately check whether the mushroom is wormy, so as not to bring home junk (that's why I always have much fewer mushrooms than my mother, because she takes everything one after the other). So, later mom went home and I decided to go back to the places we passed and look for the knife, although it is very old but I love it. I didn't find the knife, but I did see some nice scenery and some interesting mushrooms!
A representative of the genus Armillaria (Family of Physalacriaceae). It has a very beautiful yellowish color. Most likely inedible!
Small cute brown-orange mushrooms with a white rim around the edge of the cap. The whole forest is covered with them. But to determine the species, I should take more photos and cut the cap. Another time...
I recently found an old basket in the attic. I think it looks very stylish in the forest... It remains to gather more mushrooms there.
My lovely birch bolete or Leccinum scabrum of the Family of Boletaceae.
These mushrooms grow right on an abandoned dirt road that has become overgrown with moss. They look like eggs or potatoes from afar! I broke one mushroom, inside it is loose, with a small hole. This is a pear-shaped puffball (Lycoperdon pyriforme of the Family of Agaricaceae), a relative of the edible white puffball. This is an inedible mushroom, although they say that you can try it while it is young and the flesh inside is white... Well, I wouldn't risk it)
And this is most likely a young and slightly pale Trametes versicolor (Family of Polyporaceae).
On the left is an unknown mushroom. I liked it was so tall and white! On the right, this is a small Amanita pantherina. Deadly poisonous mushroom, but so bright!
After the forest, I decided to go to the bald hill, where rare pines and birches grow. Mushrooms also grew there once. And although I did not find anything edible, I came across such beauty!
This is a rare mushroom listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. It is native to Australia, but has been introduced to Europe and North America. It's called Clathrus archeri of the Family of Phallaceae. Well, this mushroom reminds me of an octopus. At a young age, it grows in the shape of an egg, and then it opens and such "shoots" come out. The mushroom smells very strongly of the corpse, thus attracting insects. Well, the smell didn't really attract me, because I'm human. But if I had known that this was a rare mushroom, I would have taken more photos...
Hiking for mushrooms is also contemplation of various beauties that nature gives us. From distant landscapes to a small insect or snail... This world will not leave anyone indifferent. I really want people to protect this planet, not destroy it. But man has moved very far from nature...
Thank you for your visit!!!
I would be afraid to collect mushrooms. How do you know if they are poisoned or not?