Fungi Friday - ON THE LITTLE INLAND TRIP

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It was a colorful trip ...

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... and a relatively short drive - about 40 kilometers from where I live ....

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... that became a relatively long walk ...

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... through the woods and meadows ...

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... of that beautiful inland area, pretty different from my usual seaside environment ...

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... in search for mushrooms ...

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... or whatever interesting & beautiful thing the nature had to offer.

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All these photographs ...

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... were taken on 19.10.2020 ...

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... the mushroom season was at its peak in this area ...

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... and the autumn ...

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... was at its best ...

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... with flowers ...

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... fruits ...

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... and colorful fungi.

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This is the Neoboletus luridiformis ... and the fruiting body on this photograph is in good shape.

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This one on the other hand, is much older and it shows some decay ...

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... which makes it attractive to some flies. This is the Suillia fuscicornis. The larvae of this species burrow and feed inside some mushrooms.

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This Drosophila melanogaster is a much smaller fly.

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When cut or broken, the tissue of this mushroom is getting blue ...

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... and when I broke this already rotting one ...

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... to see what's going on inside ...

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... I found a bunch of minuscule springtails. Neanura muscorum is the name of this very common species.

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Because of this interesting fauna in and around it ...

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... I spent quite some time with this mushroom.

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Among many relatively small mushrooms ...

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... that I wasn't able to identify ...

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... I found this large and tall Volvopluteus gloiocephalus.

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It looks pretty cool from this angle.

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This Bovista plumbea ... a puffball mushroom species ...

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... on the meadow ...

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... is in its final stage ... ready to release the spores. It was white, firm and edible some days ago ... now it's an interesting leathery sack, with a bit of nice, slightly metallic shine, filled with spores that form a fine brown powder easily dispersed when it gets in the air.

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The Lycoperdon perlatum on this photograph, another puffball species ... found in the woods not far from there ... is still in its initial, edible stage.

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This Hebeloma crustuliniforme, a poisonous species ... recently appeared on the scene, its cap is still small and oval ... while the one on the following photograph ...

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... has spread its umbrella ...

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... covered with fallen leaves.

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On the fallen oak leaves ... I found also this interesting little things ... they looked like some generic white dots when seen with the naked eye.

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When I took a good look through the macro lens, I didn't expect to see this. They looked like a colony of some small sea anemones.

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These minuscule aliens look like some kind of fungi ... but I don't know anything about them. And I never noticed them before.

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A small nymph of some leafhopper was jumping around those leaves ...

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... and this moth was hiding there.

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I found plenty of interesting stuff in that small, well illuminated area ...

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... under the oak trees that weren't growing close to each other.

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I don't know the name of this cool species and I rarely encounter these mushrooms.

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Here is another small, pretty generic looking species ...

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... but even these kinds of mushrooms are actually pretty cool.

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This elegant mushroom definitely stands out from the crowd.

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Especially when seen from above.

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I don't know what species is this.

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Various Russula were coming out of the ground on the meadows ...

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... I took these last few shots ...

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... and drove home.



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What a beautiful story, but am I very interested in that part of the mushroom that reminds me of some cascades or some precious stones - my observation ... and insects are good extras
:)

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How wonderful it is, such a variety! ...
But it seems to me that when I started photo hunting for mushrooms, they just stopped growing (
Just amazing photos, great post,
as always on top!!! Thanks for this lovely walk!

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Thanks for the comment :) This year was a good year for mushrooms here, so I could take a lot of photographs.

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Lucky you are!
And I, at least in your posts, will admire mushrooms))

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The tiny white ones on the leaf... I have never seen one like that before!
And gotta love all the colours on the broken one.

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Those little things were a big surprise for me too :)

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wow .. there are so many mushrooms and they look very beautiful and enchanting.

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Wow! A very busy post of mushrooms! Hope they were edible, some of them at least.

You had a very nice walk!

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