Here are some mushrooms I found by looking up for this #mushroommonday
Here is the first clickbait image, I know it might look like a strange fungi but it is just a wasp nest lol. Probably good I looked up to make sure I didn't accidentally bump into it and get a bunch of wasp stings in the face, ouch.
This beauty was next to the wasp nest. It was really large but too high up in the tree to get a look at the top. I remember seeing a species of oyster mushroom that looks like this in a book once, it is strange because it lacks common features of oyster mushrooms with gills running down the stem. It could also be a type of mushroom that grows out of an egg shape in the side of the tree.
Here is a batch of large orange mushrooms growing around six feet up on the tree. This is another one I have not identified but I have seen examples of Gymnopilus Junonius looking similar to this at around their large size. These seem to lack the ring around the stem though so I doubt they are the laughing gym mushroom, it is called the laughing gym because it contains some hallucinogenic toxins. Be careful though because there are a variety of Gymnopilus that have neurotoxins in them, I would avoid trying to eat mushrooms that look like this.
Here is a common sight, the summer oyster. Fortunately these nice edible mushrooms were in reach just above my head and I made a decent sized meal out of them.
Here is the common Schizophyllum commune aka split gill mushroom. These are a good edible that you can store forever once they dry, just soak them in water for a while to soften them up to use them for cooking.
Here is a common sight all year around, the artist's conk aka Ganoderma applanatum.
Ganoderma applanatum is often the only type of mushroom I can find in winter.
Ganoderma applanatum has many uses, it is called artist's conk because you can scratch design or wood burn design in the bottom and some can provide a really large canvas to create interesting designs.
This mushroom is also medicinal and has been compounds in it that kill tumors in the throat and cancer in general. It can also resolve indigestion and reduce phlegm. It can be used as a tincture by soaking it in hard alcohol for a long time or you can powder it into a fine dust and boil it in tea.
Here is Polyporus alveolaris that commonly grows in spring. These are edible but only if you find them right when they are first growing. I have read that they need to be pickled to really make them soft enough to eat and their taste by themselves isn't very interesting.
That's all for now, more soon spring is just around the corner. Thanks for looking :-)
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hi my friend you have to keep your distance from that type of wasp,, because it is very dangerous,,, Oh, about the fungus, no doubt, what you show this time is very beautiful,,
The wasps seemed to like the mushroom on the tree near it. Maybe its medicinal for them.
It would be a disaster to disturb a wasp nest of that size lol.
yes it is mate
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Mushrooms are beautiful friends. They grow on large trees that have extraordinary beauty.
They were all pretty large too. I wish I knew what the first two are if they could be eaten it would make a large meal.
Wow, the mushrooms you get are really cool.
I can't wait until spring starts so I can find new ones. Its all snow here right now.
Yeah, that looks pretty awesome.
You are very detailed in explaining the uses of mushrooms, from those that can be eaten and those that cannot be eaten, to mushrooms that can be used as alternative medicine. The last fungus, Polyporus alveolaris, looks cool growing on a wooden branch and has a beautiful orange color.
Their pore pattern is pretty unique, the common name is hexagonal polypore as they are shaped like little hexagons.
wow very nice and rare mushrooms
The ganodermas are pretty common around here for me.
oh, that wasp nest.... I'm glad we don't get them here
Fortunately if you respect their space they rarely attack.
I suppose they are also hard to miss. The wasps we have here are pretty aggressive, the nests smaller and harder to see so the first time you know that you have breached their space is when you get stung
Yeah there are some ground nesting wasps here that if you do any digging suddenly you find yourself in the middle of their nest getting stung like crazy.
Ugh. We have something here called a velvet ant. Only, it's not an ant but a wasp
Ah yes I remember the "cow killer" velvet ants in Arizona, fortunately I was never bitten by one.