mushrooms – Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0

sweetd3lights:

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blue mushrooms

Hygrocybe psittacina, commonly known as the Parrot Toadstool or Parrot Waxcap, is a colourful member of the genus Hygrocybe, the waxcaps, found across Northern Europe.

Photo credit: Miguel A. Ribes Ripoll

michaelnordeman:

This squirrel is eating mushroom.

magweno:

I found these really cool mushrooms in the woods yesterday

michaelnordeman:

Edsåsdalen in Jämtland, Sweden.

masutakeko:

たわわ
#kinoko #mushroom #fungi #fungus #mycology #instamushroom #キノコ
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awwww-cute:

Yes, she found a wild mushroom in the forest. No, she didn’t eat part of it, shes just always a derp. (Source: https://ift.tt/2NlXyVj)

moniquill:

cornerof5thandvermouth:

bert-and-ernie-are-gay:

look I don’t want to tell anyone what to do but if you go down that path you will wake up a thousand years later and all your great-grandchildren will be dead

jedavu:

Gifs Show How Mushrooms Grow

Mushrooms are fast-growing organisms that quickly pop up after the rain. These mesmerizing time-lapse gifs record the mushroom buds bursting through the soil and elegantly expanding their caps.

kellyclowers:

botanyshitposts:

help I’m 90% sure this is one of those morel mushrooms that people will die for its growing directly outside my apartment…I think it sprouted during the thunderstorms we had last night but I’ve never seen one in person before. is this a thing I can eat??? isn’t this one of those??? there’s a whole patch here growing under a carefully landscaped tree outside my college apartment????

I’m no expert, but it does look like some type of “yellow” morel. Being from MT, I’ve not really had experience with morels occurring outside of burn areas, but it does happen in other places.

Most of the morel look-alikes don’t really look anything like morels in my experience, certainly the one that seems to most commonly be called the “false morel” (Gyromitra esculenta) looks nothing like it. The Wrinkled Thimble Cap (Verpa bohemica) is somewhat closer.

Cut this one in half lengthwise and see if it is hollow. Hollow = true morel.

I’m not an expert, but morels are one of the mushrooms I do feel confident enough about IDing to eat. My first thought seeing that one? Between the shape and the growth habit, it looks more like some type of stinkhorn. It’s also pretty late in the year for morels.

Older Phallus impudicus specimens are occasionally mistaken for yellow morels. After the spore-bearing slime has been picked clean by insects, the pitted and ridged surface of the cap can resemble the cap of a morel. Since stinkhorns are hollow, and since the smell is not always as foul as it frequently is, it’s easy to see why misidentification occurs. However, stinkhorns typically grow in summer, rather than spring–and a close examination will usually reveal traces of the slime.

(Another reblog suggesting stinkhorns, from someone who is probably more knowledgeable: https://nanonaturalist.tumblr.com/post/177708104311/botanyshitposts-help-im-90-sure-this-is-one-of)