september fungi (13 foto)

Hola, setero! Today I share some fresh mushroom impressions from recent encounters. September and October will be the peak of mushroom season at Northern hemisphere, as you know.

Fresh little cute puffballs - when they pop-up like this, it is like somebody s fingers, like somebody is trying to crawl from the ground. Creepy associations!

Dryad saddle, from the archive.

With a buggy visitor!

What I especially love about these mushrooms, are young specimens, sprouts, these alien barrel-shaped thingi ... they have completely unearthly look, #iloveitalot

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Cortinarius caperatus (aka Колпак кольчатый, in Russian) — is a real "earth flower". Except for young specimens, this mushroom is very photo-friendly, when it matures and gets old, it cracks and grimaces very beautifully. Just like withered flowers. I wanted to photograph every, every copy of it I was finding on my way! and recently I saw whole fields of these mushrooms (in Karelia). By the way: it looks like a typical toadstool, but its a tasty edible mushroom!

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This is -- unknown nothingness. Red-headed, tho. I find a beautiful and touching picture of how these mushrooms inhabit an old log in the forest. Generally speaking, everything in nature is touching. Ultimately, the mushrooms will destroy this tree and return all of its components to the beneficial cycle of substances in nature.

Я нахожу красивой и умилительной картину того, как эти грибы обживают старое бревно в лесу. Вообще говоря - в природе все умилительно. В конечном итоге грибы уничтожат это дерево и вернут все его компоненты в полезный круговорот веществ в природе..

Common red-headed russula. Can look extremely cool during the different stages of its life-cycle. But - it is fraught with the promise of further amazing transformations.
Like this!

Обычная красно-головая сыроежка. Но - она таит в себе обещание дальнейших удивительных превращений. Фото кликабельно - насладитесь видом этой красотки в полную величину. Чуть не написал: "натуральную"; нет - здесь вам дадут гораздо больше!

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Coprinus sp. A common wide-spread mushroom that does not end up in our baskets and pans. But what a luxurious piece I found! It has a crooked stem - the mushroom has been reaching for the sun for a long time, making its way out of the tall grass.

Обычный распространенный гриб, который не попадает в наши корзинки и сковородки. Но какой роскошный экземпляр я нашел! У него кривой стебель - гриб долго тянулся к солнцу, пробивая себе дорогу из высокой травы.

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And here is something special.

Unindentified polypore mushroom. I refer to it myself as a 'plush mushroom', or 'that peach fungus'. I watched how it was growing all of the August, in the courtyard next to mine. One day I should tell you that story in full details.

It run through some intresting stages of transformations, quite photo-friendly. Not as much breathtaking, as in case with a Dryads saddle, but neverthreless.

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Ok - I hope you enjoyed my today's tropheys. Now its time to part ways, I wish you good luck -- and Good Hunting!

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