Some weeks ago, on the 13th of November 2021, I drove to the woods near the town called Svetvinchenat and spent an hour with the local mushrooms.
This place is situated in the inland area about forty kilometers from where I live.
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The vegetation is considerably different, the wooded areas are larger, so I often find mushrooms that are rare or non-existent in the nature around my hometown near the sea. These are the Armillaria mellea mushrooms.
Here you can take a look at the top of the cap.
Here you can take a better look at the small mushroom contorted under the fully developed ones.
Armillaria mellea is commonly known as the Honey fungus. It's edible and quite common in these deciduous woods. They grow on the stumps and roots of the trees, in this case, the oaks. Often the surface on which they grow is covered with leaf litter, so it looks like they appeared from the soil. The Armillaria mellea fruiting bodies often appear in large clusters, but on this occasion, I found only a trio of them at the edge of the forest.
Mycena pura is a lovely blue or blueish mushroom that I have never encountered in the area where I live.
Even here, forty kilometers north, I don't see them every year. The color can vary considerably, from blue to pink.
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While photographing one of these mushrooms, I noticed a springtail on its stalk. I decided to get closer. But when I mounted the macro lens and prepared the camera settings ...
... the minuscule creature retreated into the shade under the cap ...
... so I was able to get only these, not very good shots, where only the tip of the antenna is well lit. But I had some time and patience at my disposal ...
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... so, after a bit of waiting, the springtail reappeared in all its glory.
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I can't tell you the exact species, or a family, but this is definitely a springtail from the order Entomobryomorpha. Although they look a lot like minuscule insects, the springtails are different, more primitive insect-like arthropods.
The color isn't the only Mycena pura characteristic that can vary, the shape can also be slightly different from mushroom to mushroom.
Besides being considerably smaller ...
This one is pretty pale in comparison to the one with the springtail on it ...
... and the stalk isn't so thick.
After a bit of walking and sniffing around, I came across the Galerina vittiformis mushrooms.
These very small mushrooms grow in shady, moist places, often surrounded by moss. These little caps are partially closed, while the one in the following photograph ...
... is completely spread.
Here you can take a look from above.
These elegant mushrooms look a lot like Galerina vittiformis, but their stalks are considerably taller, so I'm not sure about the species. The light in that humid, shady corner was pretty low so at first, I photographed the mushrooms with the flash on.
But this elegant pair with the oak leaf above them looked so good in natural light. I just had to show them at their best. So, it was time to set the camera on the ground and take a long exposure shot.
Here you can see a pretty generic-looking, pale brown mushroom that I wasn't able to identify.
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I can't tell you the name of the species here.
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Here again, I'm not sure about the species. Maybe Clitocybe nebularis? Very, very maybe.
I found these two mushrooms on the edge of the forest, not far from my car parked by the road that leads to some small village.
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Before driving away, I photographed also these other two temporarily unidentified mushrooms.
And that's it. As always in these posts on HIVE, the photographs are my work - THE END.
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I never knew that springtails are so adorable
A bit like minuscule rabbits. Some more rounded species are even cuter than this one.
All my life I was amazed by this different appearance of mushrooms. When I was little, I was about to eat the red mushroom I saw on the road once. 🤣
Now I remember when I was a little kid, I thought everything I saw in cartoons was real. Especially red mushrooms. 😅
:D I had also a cartoonish outlook on reality as a kid.
Every time I see a news item, documentary or any story about them, I start thinking. I know there are many varieties of them, many are used for medicine, others are edible, but there is also the other part where they are deadly and cause diseases. In conclusion, I would be quite cautious about seeing any of them, you have to be informed first, to be sure haha.
I eat only a handful of species, actually. There are others that I technically recognize as edible, but I'm not confident enough to eat them. if I'm not absolutely sure and don't feel completely fine about the edibility of a mushroom, I let it be. :) But when it comes to photographing - I photograph all, the good, the stinky, and the deadly. Especially if they are good-looking and colorful.
They do resemble penises, especially in the 4th pic!
:) True, plenty of universal shapes in nature.
When I was little, I could still Remember coming across snakes with same color of these fungi. They just disguise underneath. Ever noticed same ?
Looks like a cool scene. Never saw them, unfortunately. . Maybe they don't live here in my area.
Geez, you got a fantastic eye:)
And good glasses too :D Without them, I'll be lost in the blur when looking at that small stuff up close.
I am the other way. I have to take off my glasses to see well up close:)
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Beutifool shiot mishrooms ;))
Hehehe beautiful indeed.
Different regions are different types of mushrooms, and it seems that some of these mushrooms grow in piles of rotting leaves.
Yes, rotting leaves are great for many fungi species.
We have Armillaria mellea in the fall, a fairly common mushroom, but this year, unfortunately, I was not able to go for it (
At first I did not recognize the disclosed specimens, we harvest them closed ... The pictures are gorgeous! I didn't think that this mushroom could have such a beautiful look in old age)
There weren't many here this year as well. Wasn't a good year for fungi in general in my area. Yes, they are pretty good-looking mushrooms when completely developed, especially when grown in large clusters.
Last year we had a drought and there were no mushrooms at all ... And this year I just didn't get to the places where they grow (((
It looks like you really like shooting photos of small objects like those fungi, but yes, they are very cool, the result of the macro lens that you use is quite perfect for capturing those objects. 🥰🥰🤗🤗
It's a lot of fun looking through the macro lens. :) It uncovers plenty of otherwise invisible details.
Yes that's very true 🥰🥰
this is such a beautiful and perfect portrait @borjan. so it makes me want to take pictures like this. Wow wow
The mushroom in the first photo looks so delicious, I really want to try it
:)
Just say wowww! 🙃 amazing shots
Thank you
It's amazing, you show various types of mushrooms that are very beautiful
Mycena pura or blue or blueish mushroom are really fantastic. Those are very rare. And also those are so beautiful. I haven't ever seen such Mycena Pura or bluish mushrooms before. Thanks for sharing
Woooow, your macro photography is amazing, the details are very clear. thank you for sharing
Keep up the good work @borjan it's really awesome.
I,m very like big beautiful mushrooms
:) 😺🐤😺