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Hunormous polypore bracket . . .

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Tempeltje van Barger-Oosterveld

The temple of Barger-Oosterveld is a temple of the Elp culture from around 1250 BC in Barger-Oosterveld that played a role in rituals.

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@dinonugasaurus Hiyaa! I was thinking you might like this given your interest in history :)

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Even more waxcaps a.k.a. Hygrocybe !

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So many waxcaps a.k.a Hygrocybe !

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Common Puffball a.k.a. Lycoperdon perlatum and False Chantarelles a.k.a. Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca

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Porcelain fungus a.k.a Oudemansiella mucida

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Some parasol mushrooms a.k.a. Macrolepiota procera and a gorgeous view . . .

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Even more mushrooms . . . the biodiversity in the forest was astonishing !

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Miscellaneous fungi . . .

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Some really cuty and tiny mushrooms . . .

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I am not sure what exact species, but I am fairly sure these belong to the genus Clitocybe

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How I find mushrooms and fungi

Note : I do not eat any of the fungi I find, so I will not give any advice on how to find edible mushrooms or on how to identify edible mushrooms. Also, English is not my first language so if anything is unclear in this post, let me know and I will try to explain better :)

@writingraccoon I hope this helps :)

1. Location

Firstly the location, if I am actively searching for fungi I go to the woods during the autumn and early winter (where I live the winters are not very cold). If I am looking for fungi passively I just glance and have a look if I see any muhsrooms by the trees in the city.

2. Why the woods?

Well, the woods are a huge area of earth and trees, basically it is nature. Fungi's mycelium can grow very well in moist earth and some have symbiotic relationships with trees, so the woods are a perfect place for fungi to grow.

Fungi flourish especially in the autumn because of the rainfall and windy weather, because those two factors can help spores to spread and therefore to help grow more fungi.

Also, in the autumn there are a lot of leaves covering the canopy and because of the moisture wood is more likely to rot, which means there is a lot of dead or rotting organic material for saprobic mushrooms to decompose. The rainfall also offers an oppurtunity for moss to flourish; the moss can retain a lot of moisture which makes it attractive for fungi to grow near.

So basically the woods in the autumn offer fungi two things: a cozy home and tons of food (especially for saprobic mushrooms).

3. So where in the woods should I look?

I would recommend looking for rotting wood, such as rotting tree stumps or timber or whatever, just rotting wood. Sometimes you will find wood covered in a fuzzy white patch, this is most likely mycelium which means you are on the right track. Moss is also a great place to look because it retains so much moisture.

There is a huge chance you will find some kind of fungus if you search in these places.

4. Look closely

Often the case is if you find one there are more, so once you find a mushroom / fungus I would take a close look around you to see if you can spot more of them. Some mushrooms can be really small like just a single centimetre / half an inch tall, or even tinier, so it is definietely important to look closely.

What should I bring with me?

This really depends on what your plans are.

If you are going to photograph fungi, you could bring a trash bag to lie down on so your clothes do not get dirty.

If you are going for research purposes, I would bring a basket to put some fungi in. So they do not get squashed and mushy, it is kind of unpractical when you are going to take samples or make spore prints.

If you are going to touch the fungi in any capacity I would bring a cloth to clean your hands a bit afterwards.

Note : remember you can touch mushrooms and fungi even if they are poisonous, but WASH YOUR HANDS when you get home or before you eat just to be sure.

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Puffballs and / or earthballs . . .

Just to be clear these last two last fungi are not the same ones, I did not stomp on it.

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Fire sponges a.k.a. Pehllinus igniarius

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Candle snuff fungus a.k.a. Xylaria hypoxylon

I have wanted to find these for such a long time!!!

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So people (especially @jasontoddlovr) wanted recipes so here they is:)

Note : I probably made a ton of typos, sorry

Cider

Ingredients:

A bag of apples (there were like 6 or 7 small apples in the bag I bought)

A net of oranges (there were like 6 oranges in the net I bought)

250 grams / about 9 oz. cranberries

As much pumpkin / gingerbread spices as you fancy

Some cinnamon and cloves

Few glasses of water

Optional red wine

Recipe:

Wash all of the fruits. Chop the apples up and throw them in a fairly large pan. Add some water untill half of the apples are submerged and turn on the hob on a low simmer.

Chop all but three oranges up and throw them in the pan. Add a glass of water, up untill like 3/4 of the apples and oranges are submerged. Juice two oranges and add it to the pan.

Cut up the cranberries and add them to the pan. Add a glas of water till the ingredients are fully submerged.

Add however much spices you want and let it simmer for a few hours, untill the apples are mushy.

Take the pan of the hob and mush the ingrediets.

Grab a bowl and pot a fine sift or mesh cloths over it. Filter the cider through untill only mush is left (do not throw the mush away if you are going to make the stew).

Clean the pan of any remaining mush and throw the filtered cider back in the pan and put it in the hob on a low simmer.

Cut up the last orange into slices and add it to the cider.

Optional : add some red wine and let the alcohol boil out.

After another hour of simmering it is ready to serve:)

Soul Cakes

Ingredients:

3 1/2 cups of flour

1 cup of white sugar

6 oz. of salted butter

2 tsp. of vanilla extract

1 1/2 tsp. of baking soda

1/2 cups of milk

1/4 cups of yoghurt

2 tsp. of pumpkin spice / gingerbead spices

1/2 cup of dried apricots and cranberries

Recipes:

Preheat the oven to 200 ℃ or 425 ℉.

Take out a tray and lay baking paper down on it.

Mix together the sugar and salted butter.

Add the yoghurt, milk and vanilla extract and mix.

Add the baking powder and pumpkin spice, mix.

Add the flour (if you have been using a mixer before, I would start kneading now) bit by bit and knead it to a dough. If the dough is still to sticky add a bit more flour.

Chop up the apricots and cranberries and knead it thorugh the dough.

Put the dough in the fridge for about 20 minutes.

Cover your counter in flour and roll out the chilled dough to about 1 centimetre or 1/2 inches thick.

Cut the soul cakes out with a circular cookie cutter (TIP: if the soul cake sticks to the cookie cutter too much, put some flour on the cookie cutter) and place them on the baking sheet.

Mark an X on top of the soul cakes and glaze the tops with milk.

Bake for 12 minutes, after which you remove them from the oven and (remark the soul cakes with an X if necessary) glaze them with milk again and sprinkle some sugar on top. Bake for another 15 minutes until the tops turn brownish.

Let the soul cakes cool (in my experience the do not taste good warm) and serve them with coffee, tea or cider.

If you are pagan or not, you can offer them to the spirits, ancestors or deities.

Stew

Ingredients:

4 or 5 cloves of garlic (or however many you need to keep the vampires away, if that is your goal)

2 white onions

Oil

450 grams / 16 oz. of beef ( I used beef), pork or whatever you prefer

Cider mush

Tomato purée

2 soup spoons of cider

4 or 5 big carrots

5 tomatoes

A glass of herbal broth

2 cobs of corn

5 potatoes

Pumpkin spice

Salt and pepper (possibly cayenne)

Rosemary

Thyme

Recipe:

But a big pan on the hob and turn the temperature on a medium-low, add some oil. Mince the garlic and onion and add it to the pan.

Cut up the meat ad add it to the pan. Add the mush of the cider and some tomato purée. Also add two soup spoons of cider and the let it simmer.

Chop up the carrots and tomatoes, add them to the pan and add a big glass of herbal broth and let it simmer.

Cook two cobs of corn on the side untill golden. Cut the corn of the cob and and it to the stew.

Peel and cut the potatoes into 1/8.

Add some pumpkin spice, salt, pepper, rosemary and thyme to taste.

Let it simmer for an hour or two, untill the pototoes are mashable.

Serve it:)

@writingraccoon as for the recipe for my son . . .

You will need about 5 cups of cuteness, 4 cups of floof, 6 cups of sweetness, 9 cups of feral *I want more treats* energy, 10 cups of sleepiness and 7 cups of purrring :)

Just mix it all together and knead it into a loaf and put it in the oven untill you have got some burned spots (if you are going for the tuxedo look that is). And there you go, a holy cutiepatootie :)

I am making cider for halloween!! And none other than my son is helping (begging for treats)!!

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Here you go @writingraccoon ! Trick or treat !

I found these lovely pumpkin 🎃 coloured mushrooms today, I was not gonna post it yet . . . but you know . . . trick or treat !

Trick or treat? (Ignore if you want lol)

I would answer, if I knew how it worked . . .

Could you please explain how trick or treat works? Because I would love to answer, but right now I do not know how to:(