Fungi Archives - Beyond https://www.schweboo.com/beyond/portfolio-category/fungi/ One hundred years of travel photography Sun, 03 Sep 2023 06:36:43 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Chicken of the woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) https://www.schweboo.com/beyond/lens_portfolio/chicken-of-the-woods-laetiporus-sulphureus/ https://www.schweboo.com/beyond/lens_portfolio/chicken-of-the-woods-laetiporus-sulphureus/#respond Wed, 10 May 2023 07:39:29 +0000 https://www.schweboo.com/?post_type=lens_portfolio&p=7364 Bright, bold and soft to the touch. With its distinctive look, chicken of the woods is easy to spot on the trunks of trees like oak and cherry. A thick, fleshy bracket fungus, bright creamy yellow with bands of orange when young, fading to cream with age. It has succulent, soft and moist crumbly flesh. The upper surface is velvety, and it has very small pores underneath. It has a strong ‘fungus’ smell. Seen in the gardens if Chiswick House in August 2020 [my_map]

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]]> Bright, bold and soft to the touch. With its distinctive look, chicken of the woods is easy to spot on the trunks of trees like oak and cherry.

A thick, fleshy bracket fungus, bright creamy yellow with bands of orange when young, fading to cream with age. It has succulent, soft and moist crumbly flesh. The upper surface is velvety, and it has very small pores underneath. It has a strong ‘fungus’ smell.

Seen in the gardens if Chiswick House in August 2020

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]]> https://www.schweboo.com/beyond/lens_portfolio/chicken-of-the-woods-laetiporus-sulphureus/feed/ 0 Beefsteak Fungus (Fistulina hepatica) https://www.schweboo.com/beyond/lens_portfolio/beefsteak-fungus-fistulina-hepatica/ https://www.schweboo.com/beyond/lens_portfolio/beefsteak-fungus-fistulina-hepatica/#respond Sat, 29 Apr 2023 10:43:48 +0000 https://www.schweboo.com/?post_type=lens_portfolio&p=7119 The Beefsteak Fungus, Fistulina hepatica. This mushroom is best cooked in a creamy recipe or mixed with other mushrooms due to the slight acidic taste. I do note that insects are already attacking this young one…at least two are visible in this shot. Seen in Chiswick House and Gardens in September 2022. [my_map]

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]]> The Beefsteak Fungus, Fistulina hepatica. This mushroom is best cooked in a creamy recipe or mixed with other mushrooms due to the slight acidic taste. I do note that insects are already attacking this young one…at least two are visible in this shot.

Seen in Chiswick House and Gardens in September 2022.

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]]> https://www.schweboo.com/beyond/lens_portfolio/beefsteak-fungus-fistulina-hepatica/feed/ 0 Shaggy Parasol (Chlorophyllum (formerly Macrolepiota) rhacodes) https://www.schweboo.com/beyond/lens_portfolio/shaggy-parasol-chlorophyllum-formerly-macrolepiota-rhacodes/ https://www.schweboo.com/beyond/lens_portfolio/shaggy-parasol-chlorophyllum-formerly-macrolepiota-rhacodes/#respond Sat, 29 Apr 2023 10:30:51 +0000 https://www.schweboo.com/?post_type=lens_portfolio&p=7116 The Shaggy Parasol  is a fairly common mushroom found mainly in or beside woods and hedges. It is smaller than the Parasol Mushroom, Macrolepiota procera, and its stem lacks the snakeskin-like patterning associated with the Parasol. [my_map]

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]]> The Shaggy Parasol  is a fairly common mushroom found mainly in or beside woods and hedges. It is smaller than the Parasol Mushroom, Macrolepiota procera, and its stem lacks the snakeskin-like patterning associated with the Parasol.

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