FungiFriday - Fungi of the Coprinellus Micaceus Species That Live on Dead Tree Trunks

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This My contribution to #FungiFriday by @ewkaw 🍄

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This morning I woke up early, breathed fresh air in the morning. This morning looked brighter than the previous few days. The past few days the weather was overcast with rain and strong winds.

Today I can enjoy a sunny day, hot weather with morning sun which can form pro-vitamin D which is useful for muscles. So, today I can have fun and spend some time looking for mushrooms around my house. The condition of my yard is still muddy and inundated with water because of yesterday's flood.

I went behind the house, behind my house there is one of the kedondong trees. This kedondong tree has a diameter of about 40 cm, with a fairly large trunk. Because this tree grows near the house, so we have cut this tree.

This was to prevent worries such as windstorms and bad weather from having a bad impact on the house, so this tree was cut down. On this tree during the rainy season, I often see that there are several types of mushrooms growing. This tree kedondong has a hard texture and does not rot easily.

On the sidelines of the stems that are still hanging on the ground grow lots of mushrooms. Maybe because of the humid conditions, this fungus can reproduce easily on this tree kedondong. Positive microorganisms have produced fungal plants which often breed on dead tree kedondong.

The type of mushroom that I photographed this time has a very unique shape and caught my attention. This mushroom has a soft texture and easily mushy. This mushroom has a fairly small size, the stem is about 3-5 cm high with umbrella-shaped leaves.

Every stem and part of the umbrella looks like it has fine powders. There were some mushrooms that had entered their final growth period, entering death, the umbrella looked black ink. This mushroom has a white stem color with a yellow-brown umbrella.

After I searched through Wikipedia, this mushroom is an Inkycap mushroom classification with another name is Coprinellus micaceus. This mushroom grows in clusters of very many groups, even more than ten stems. There are fine grains that adorn the umbrella-shaped hood or leaves.

However, in old age, the umbrella will soften and melt with the grains turning to ink. The small granules contained in this hood will fall when the rain wets the leaves or the hood. The color of the hood at a young age is generally honey-brown or looks brownish yellow.

This mushroom has white inner flesh with a soft and mushy texture. The shape of the leaf cover at a glance resembles a bell shape. This fungus is easily found in rotten wood or wood that has died after being cut down with a spread reaching Asia.

Generally, mushrooms with the classification of the Coprinellus micaceus family are edible. What's more, the mushroom that I found grew on dead kedondong tree trunks. To my knowledge the kedondong tree does not have any toxic substances, so the nutrients consumed by the fungus from the kedondong tree seem normal.

However, it should be noted that in categorizing Coprinellus micaceus, you need to consider where this fungus grows. If it grows in a place that might be like garbage or sewage, it can indicate the spread of toxins produced from garbage or sewage. So, you need to be careful too if you want to eat this mushroom.

Because this mushroom looks very unique and caught my attention, so I took some photos using my cellphone camera. All photos that I have uploaded here are original photos that I have not edited. In taking photos I use the 5X zoom feature and adjust the layout and decrease the lighting level.

In the process of taking pictures, I try to maintain the level of hand stability and camera position, because when taking pictures my position is in a squatting condition. I try to adjust my breathing and hand movements every time I press the shooting button. I am happy to get various pictures of this mushroom for you.

Here are some mushroom photos that I have taken:

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Thus my contribution review for FungiFriday. Hopefully this post can provide information and education. Thank you for reading, responding to and supporting my presentation work on the social Hive blockchain. Love and affection for us, success !

Location	Samudera Sub-District, North Aceh District - [//]:# (!pinmapple 5.14023 lat 97.22120 long Kuta Glumpang d3scr)
Binomial classification	Coprinellus micaceus
Time	11.23 pm GMT+7
Camera	IPHONE 11
Weather conditions	Bright
Camera Distance	20-25 cm
Camera Set	5X zoom

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All the original photos that I have uploaded in this post have been featured as a "Creative Commons" licensed attribution. You can use them freely by including the original source or the owner of the photo, namely @ponpase.

Indonesia, 23 December 2022

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@ponpase