It’s Friday people! Everyone loves Fridays, as it’s the beginning of the weekend. My weekend already started yesterday afternoon and today I have been busy doing laundry, shopping, watering my plants, cooking and cleaning kitchen.
The very new reason why I started looking forward to Friday is to post my beloved mushrooms in #FungiFriday community, created by @ewkaw , as well as indulge myself in many beautiful posts of this particular community. What new mushrooms will I discover today through the eyes of members of this amazing community? Who knows? I’m sure excited to find out 🤩
Although I have 1000’s of mushroom pictures in my photo gallery, I keep taking new ones! I know, I’m crazy. Definitely crazy about mushrooms. They are peculiar beings with the mycelium network penetrating pretty much the whole Earth. I feel like once you consume them once, you’re forever intimately connected to that network and you begin to hear whispers of them, calling you out to come and find them.
It’s not just my personal opinion. I heard statements like this from many fungi lovers. They even come into our dreams and are always up to some mischief.
One of my biggest discoveries once I started visiting British woodlands are those amazing #CoralMushrooms. I’ve never seen them back in Poland. Although it must have been my ignorance, because this year I saw a few of those in the Polish forests I visited with my auntie.
What I love about them the most is that bright colour! You can see them from far away because of that colour. And their shape! It’s like being underwater and exploring coral reef without actually going underwater. Truly fascinating.
I’m not sure about these, but in general bright colours in nature are to warn creatures not to eat them, as they might have a deadly effect on the eater. I guess that’s why I always find them untouched, in pristine condition.
Their favourite place to grow is on dead tree trunks. Not only does it make a beautiful stage for taking pictures, but like all fungi these help in recycling all dead matter into a rich compost for other beauties to grow in. Big or small, I truly love them all 😍
There is also a white variety of those coral mushrooms in our forests. They’re beautiful too, but I’m sure you too can see just how much colour adds to their beauty. The difference is striking.
I know… this is not a mushroom, but I do love to capture other interesting views while on my fungi hunts. This time of the year the weather can be really stormy in England. Some older and not so healthy trees don’t make it through another storm. Hopefully it didn’t kill any creatures on its way down…
Or did it? Because I have found some bones around the fallen tree. First time that I came across bones laying around the forest like this. It must have been quite a sizeable animal. I felt like an archeologist for a moment.
Although I very quickly realised that I couldn’t be one. I cringed a little as I approached the bones to take some pictures from up close. There were still some remains of this animal’s dead body attached to the bones.
Uhh, let’s get back to mushrooms! Those growing on dead trees are mostly not edible, but they sure rather beautiful. Like those here… I mean how many mushrooms can squeeze into one tree trunk?! Clearly a lot of them as you can see here. Together they create an incredible mosaic and give rainbow-like feeling, although they Don’t have as many colours as real rainbows 😉
I love also the ivy branches making room for themselves in between those mushrooms. They sure wanna be first in queue for that fertile compost that will soon replace that tree trunk. Together with moss they all coexist beautifully on one tree trunk. Humans could learn a lot just by watching and copying the nature.
I took many pictures of those, but as you can see I am no photographer. I wanted to capture mushrooms, but instead the trees took the focus 🤷🏻♀️
Not this interesting creature:
I mean, what is it? I absolutely love this. When I look at it up close it’s like 100’s of tiny start connected to wrap around some dead matter.
When I saw it for the very first time and from some distance I got fouled that it’s been snowing in the forest. Only as I came closer I realised mother nature is playing tricks with me. It’s a snow-like fungi!
Ok, ok, I’m almost done for today. I know, I love to talk a lot. So just a few more captures of some random most likely un-edibles for you.
Although cheerful looking fella’s you must admit 😉
And let me finish with my attempt of capturing the spikes of edible Hedgehog mushroom. They’re an acquired taste as my friend would say. For me they’re like salmon - I love the taste of it, but I wouldn’t eat it everyday. The taste is that particular for me. Not for my ex though! He was never tired of running to that forest to pick as many as he could carry and then eat them every single day with eggs! He was simply that amazed that he can go and pick free food 😍 Like a discovery of his century!
Right, enough from me for today. Happy Fungi Friday to all fungi lovers out there and if you’re new here and would appreciate some guidance, here is a place to be and learn - #TheTerminal 💙
Until next time 💙
Awesome photos... skulls and mushrooms what else do we need?
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Haha, exactly 😂 The skull was unusual find though, never seen any bones around before this trip
I didnt see these orangey ones before. Do you also consume any herbal mushrooms for medicine?
They’re so cute! No, I haven’t tried any herbal mushroom medicines yet. Maybe will try some at some point, but I need to learn how to prepare them before I try 😉💙
Cool. I bought the Reishi ones which are supposed to be good for you.
Awesome! Let me know how you get on with them ☺️💙
I love the coral mushrooms more.
Nice photography.
I love them too! Such cheerful creatures 💙
I am familiar with some types of mushroom here but some are new. What a nice search in the forest
Beautiful shots 👍👏
Thank you! I found many new types of mushrooms through the posts of community members too 💙
Wow, you are really sick of mushrooms! 😅 !LOLZ But I understand you perfectly, you have so many beautiful things growing in the woods! Have good walks and future pics!
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Thank you so much for stopping by and have an amazing weekend too 💙
Beautiful and bright photos.
Nice capture dear.
Thank you 🙏 💙
You are welcome
Beautiful photos you share, there are varieties that first time I see them, thanks for your post.
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Aww, thank you so much! That’s why I love those fungi Fridays, as I can see many mushrooms I’ve never seen before. I’m so happy that you found something new here 💙
Wow cool pics
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Thank you ☺️
Lovely photos of mushrooms.
Thank you for stopping by 💙
You are welcome and do enjoy your monday too
You really had a busy day. The photos of the mushrooms are fine too.
Yes, some days are like this, while other days I just sleep or watch movies 😂
It's my fist time seeing that type of mushroom! interesting.
Awesome 😎 Glad you could find something new and interesting in my post 💙
Those are some really amazing finds on your forest walk Monika. You even got a bonus of those bones. I do wonder what animal could that be and who had eaten the flesh out of it.
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Same here sis! All those questions were running through my mind when I was capturing these 💙
It did give me goosies thinking what could be lurking there in the woods hehe!
You’re second person to say something along these line. Somehow that didn’t cross my mind 😳
Haha! Your mind is clean :) Mine and that first person's have some kind of pollutants, lol!
Haha 😂 I guess I’m just too greedy for collecting nice pictures to be aware of dangers 😂💙
But you're safe so it is pointless if you had been worrying hehe!
Wow amazing you was able to find all this on your walk have the best weekend
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You are welcome have the best weekend
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A lot of fungi. For sure, you had some edible ones for cooking hehe
There were some hedgehogs, but I didn’t pick them this time. Hunting alone was still very enjoyable 💙
I had never thought of listening to mushrooms, at least not to mushrooms that are not psychotropic or psychoactive :) But, I suppose it is because I had never considered such an intimate relationship with mushrooms.
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Haha 😂 The psychoactive ones are calling to me too! Through the voices of people telling me to try them. I might give in and try 😁
Thank you for stopping by 💙
I will be a bit scare if I see that kind of bone laying around in the forest. I might go back and end my mushroom hunting for the day. : )
Haha 😂 Somehow it didn’t cross my mind to get scared. I guess I’m too curious and greedy for more nice pictures, so I continued my walk 💙
Naaah its normal 😃
What an awesome collection. Love th coral ones an the hedgehog one. And that white pretty thing is Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa. I don't think I have seed one myself. So nice!
It’s the era of digital hoarding! 😂
Your knowledge is abundant Ewka! So it is fungi after all 😁 Thanks for the name of it, although I’m pretty sure I won’t remember it 🙈
Oh no, it was th first time I saw them. But Google knows it all :D
I hardly remember weird name too. Have to look them up every time.
Ahh, I see! I have so many apps for identifying plants and mushrooms, but I barely ever use them 🙈
I really appreciate the captured photos especially the mushrooms @fantagira they are so beautiful. They have different kinds but still each of them has there own beauty. I'm so glad you found them and thank you for sharing this to us.
Thank you for stopping by and appreciating them with me here on Hive. I love this platform and all the people I’m meeting on my journey here 💙
Oh man I'd LOVE to find hedgehog fungus! Maybe next year. Can't wait til next Autumn and I'll be bugging you with mushroom shots too.
Sooo true.
We have heaps of coral fungus here too. The colours are great.
And yes bones etc are cool and fascinating as well! Food for fungi also. Life and death all mixed up on the forest floor.
Haha 😂 You mean my spring?! Please do! Maybe it will motivate me to go hunt for morels. I’d love to find one 😍 And all the best finding those hedgehogs! They grow like weed here.
Life and death all mixed up on the forest floor… I love this so much!
Do you have coral mushrooms in other colours than those I found?
Great shots, was that last weekend Monka? if the weather is allowable will see if I can into the woods in the next day or so.
Yes, that was last weekend. Or the previous one to the last 😂 The mushrooms are still there, go have a look for them 😁💙