Fungi

[Miss Chicken]

This photo was in my local paper today

It is the anemone stinkhorn and it is found eastern Australia including Tasmania.

A few days ago in one thread someone asked why there wasn't blue fungi and I found a photo of this (some beautiful photos on that site)

I don't have any good photos of fungi among the photos I have taken mainly because I am no longer capable of bushwalking but I remember seeing some spectacular examples in the past.

Also, when I was a child, we used to go mushrooming for field mushrooms. Lots of people did it. Farmers didn't seem to mind you going into their field so long as you were careful of fences and didn't annoy the cows. We would come home with a basketful which Mum would cook up. They were much more delicious that the mushrooms that can be bought in a shop today. Occasionally edible field mushrooms come up in my garden. I am thinking serious about growing mushrooms this year.

I hope other here might be interested in this topic. I would appreciate photos, recipes etc.

 

[horatio83]

Hunting for mushrooms in the fields, sounds like the life of a Hobbit.

 

[scotpens]

Those variously colored mushrooms are quite pretty.

For some reason, now I’m thinking about posters that glow under ultraviolet light, and my old Steppenwolf and Iron Butterfly LP’s.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Hunting for mushrooms in the fields, sounds like the life of a Hobbit.

It's also a great way to get food poisoning.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

...or to get off your head...

 

[scotpens]

Hunting for mushrooms in the fields, sounds like the life of a Hobbit.

It's also a great way to get food poisoning.

If you don’t know your mushrooms.

 

[Pegaritaville]

Hunting for mushrooms in the fields, sounds like the life of a Hobbit.

It's also a great way to get food poisoning.

That's the great thing about hunting for morel mushrooms- they're easy to identify. And they taste great. The morels around here should be coming up in a few weeks and I'll be out looking for them.

 

[Miss Lemon]

I hope other here might be interested in this topic. I would appreciate photos, recipes etc.

I am.
Thank you very much for that weblink, such beautiful mushrooms!

I like to search for mushrooms in Autumn. I must have made hundreds of pictures over the years. But I'm afraid we don't have very exotic ones over here. This is one of the most colourful I've found:

It was so tiny, I almost missed it!

 

[Miss Chicken]

Gorgeous.

Glad to see someone else as interested as I am.

I wish digital cameras were around when I was still capable of bushwalking. There are some great spots I know for taking photos of mushrooms but alas I can no longer get to them.

Many years ago when my kids were in their early teens they collected stamps. As I was talking them into the Stamp Shop to make theit purchases I used to buy fungi stamps for my own little collection. This morning I foud the collection in a box at the bottom of my wardrobe.

Here is a photo of a few of them.

 

[JustKate]

The Midwestern U.S. is home to a perfectly glorious mushroom called the morel. It's not much to look at (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morchella ) at but it's. so. deeLISHous. My mouth waters just thinking about it.