Pineal Mushrooms

Wild Mushrooms. Foraging. Exploring. Cooking.

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1000 Steps Trail, Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria Late Autumn, May 2014 Taken on 60mm Macro, Canon 600D

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Mycena! And on Mycena day! 

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Spore Prints

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More Mycena viscidocruenta

Mount Field national park, Tasmania

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Sunday is Mycena day!

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Mycena sp.

Cascade Track, Tasmania

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Sunday is Mycena day!

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Mycena interrupta

Bett’s Vale, Tasmania

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Sunday is Mycena day!

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No leps today but some funghi I shot on a walk in 2014. I don’t know all of the species for sure, as I didn’t have the equipment to key them yet, but

1, 2, and 7 are some Ramaria species,

5  Calocera viscosa 

8 Cortinarius violaceus

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Some Turkey Tail mushrooms and others in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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I personally grew a few oyster Mushrooms at home a … | by BharatKini | http://ift.tt/20onefr

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8/15 at Little Beaver State Park, West Virginia

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From the sandy banks of the Siltcoos

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Trametes. by Steven Murray

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Let’s take a look at the smooth and highly medicinal Birch Polypore

Used for literally, thousands of years by humans. Once found on Oetzi the Ice Man found in the Italian Alps. The Ice Man used this mushroom as a general antibiotic but more so, as an anti parasitic.

Birch Polypore also know as Piptoporus betulinus, is found growing in more temperate climate that have Birch trees growing. We slice it into strips to be dried and used as natural band-aids or to use topically to reduce pain and inflammation. It’s a beautiful mushroom. You can see it every year from the same Birch trees. It doesn’t over winter well but does come back annually. This mushroom is very anti tumor as well, as with all mushrooms found on Birch due to the trees Betulinic Acid, a strong cancer fighting and immune system enhancing compound. This cluster was found in Toledo, Ohio.

#smugtownmushrooms #wildmushrooms #wildmedicine #mycelium #mycology #birchpolypore #piptoporusbetulinus #mushroommedicine #fungi #polypores #greatlakes

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I found some of these in Nova Scotia, Canada

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There was a lot of rain in the eastern United States this past summer, so it was an overwhelmingly good summer for mycology. I got to cross many fungi off of my must-see list, and I stumbled upon Pseudohydnum gelatinosum again, which I saw once before but didn’t get to spend enough time with. I’m not going to lie - I spent a glorious 15 minutes just sitting among this patch and poking it.

8/15 at Little Beaver State Park, West Virginia

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Elegant stinkhorn (Mutinus elegans)

8/15 at New River Gorge, West Virginia

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I want to find me one of these

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Phlebia sp. growing on a lichen growing on a moss growing on a log

12/15 in southern Wisconsin

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Mushroom landart by Jill Bliss

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Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi. 

By McIlvaine, Charles, 1840-1909 Macadam, Robert K.

explanation of plates 

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16659#page/11/mode/1up

Publication info Indianapolis,The Bowen-Merrill Company[c1902]

BHL Collections: MBLWHOI Library, Woods Hole