Schwarzwalder Fungi 5

It's now quite a while since we went to the Black Forest in Germany but I still have some photos I did not share, of some of the mushrooms and fungi we saw.

I think this is the last post from the trip!

This first toadstool looks like it could be a Fly Agaric but I wasn't totally certain as it didn't seem to have the white spots.

One of the most common fungi I see is Turkey Fantail fungus (although I discovered there is a False Turkey Fantail as well which doesn't have the same underneath.  I love all the variety in colour you see of this fungus and the example below had lovely blue and grey hues.

The example below was similar with some mustardy/brown shades too.

At one point, we climbed into a very high bird hide up a tall ladder and sat there a while trying to spy squirrels and birds.  As we climbed down, I saw this purple poking out and was very excited.

I'm still not 100% sure on what this is, but I really hope it was/is an Amethyst Deceiver. I've seen differing photos of this. Some that look like this, others that are much more bluey-purple!

Onto another purple fungus and one I've seen before:  Purple Jelly Disc!

Another example of Turkey Fantail/False Turkeytail but in more pastelly shades.

On this mossy tree-stump, I think we have some Sulphur Tuft fungi.

CBC came towards me proffering this example of a Coral Fungus.  He assured me it had already been uprooted  so I didn't tell him off for that!

CBC and I spent a lot of the walk trying to find a perfect example of a Fly Agaric and we think this was our best one that was the least chewed up!

I think this was another Brittlegill below.

The colours on the bracket fungi below were beautiful! Almost rainbows!

I think this could be a Dyer's fungus

We saw this burnt-toast looking fungus poking out a tree later in the day.

The final example was another set of Winter Chanterelles/AKA Yellow foot fungus.  These ones were very young but jolly!  Next time I find these, I'm definitely picking and eating some. They have a wonderful fruity smell. Not at all mushroomy smelling!

 I hope you enjoyed seeing this array of fungi.  I still have some fungi from the Summer holiday to share at some point!

German Blackforest, Schwarzwalder Fungi 4 and other find.

I thought I'd return to my Germany fungi finds during my walk in the Black Forest area near Bad Wildbad. 

Starting off with these two examples.  I confess to not knowing what on earth they are!

I'm not sure if the ones below were a form of Puffball or Earthball.  They are very fluffy though! Perhaps they are Stump Puffballs?

I headed off into some dark mossy depths at one point in the woods and I am very glad I did as I came across a patch of something on my Wishlist- CHANTERELLES! IN this case, Winter Chanterelles. Craterellus Tubaeformis, also known as Yellow Foot fungi or Trumpet Chanterelles, for obvious reasons. The ones below are quite young

but I did come across a bugger example.  They have fake gills, they not actually gills, they have wrinkles that resemble them.  They have a delightfully fruity smell. I did pick this one and carry it proudly, for the remainder of my walk! Isn't it beautiful!  They are actually a fungus that I like the taste of!

I so wish I had someone with me, or a book, to identify this intriguing mushroom.  In retrospect, I needed to have a look at the underside too, to know more.

There were different parts of the forest where we saw lots of the same fungi but this moment was brilliant as we saw this wonderful collection of Shaggy Inkcaps looking like they were at some sort of Goth disco or party! How much do they look like they are having a gossip!

You can see a young one and an older one side by side.

Here we have some spent puffball mushrooms, probably Wolf-Farts or Pear-shaped puffballs. Their latin name is Apioperdon pyriforme (but apparently they used to be known as Lycoperdon pyroforme!) When they release their spores, they can make a farty sound. Apparently edible!

I always forget what this type of mushroom is below, every time I see it.  Are they Common Inkcaps?

Something very interesting we found was the honeycomb of some wild bees in a hole which had been taken over by wasps! I've never seen this in the wild before!

Possible some sort of Turkey Tail fungus here.It comes in so many different shades!

We found this wonderful collection of spotty feathers too!

 So many wonderful things to see!

Schwarzwalder Fungi 3- the holy grail!

Back to sharing my fungi find from Germany.  I did slightly drive CBC mad with my stopping for fungi but he did get involved also and stop and stop and point out so I think he just likes to pretend to be annoyed sometimes!

Shall we see some mushies??

I saw another pink mushroom which I think was possibly a Rosy Bonnet.

Here was a Charcoal brittle grill. I also love the contrast to all the background detritus.

Yet another Russula here. I liked the way the nibbles were making it heart-shaped!

Yet another Russula here

I finally found an intact one- this is known as a 'Sickener' for obvious reasons that it will make you sick if you try to eat it...unlike other very edible Russulas!

CBC deserves a prize for his next find because he saw this from quite far away and pointed it out to me and guess what??? IT WAS ONE OF MY TOP WISHLIST FUNGI!!!!!!!!!

This is a Lion's Mane fungus which, in the UK, is incredibly rare and a protected species! Just look at it!!!!

This is highly prized and edible with many, many health benefits, but you must not pick it in the UK. I'm not sure about Germany. As I am not hugely keen on eating mushrooms, I wouldn't even have contemplated picking it, if it were allowed, as it would be a complete waste if I didn't like it!

It is fabulous!!! I was very sad to leave it!

This next, very Microphone-like specimen was growing quite close to the Lion's Mane.  I believe it is a Calvatia Cyathiformus or the Purple spored Puffball.  Ang asked how I knew the names of fungi.  Well, I did read an entire fungi book a few years ago but I follow lots of Mushroom folk on insta and they often post about a particular fungus. Someone posted this and I realised it was the same as the one I saw in Germany! Sometimes, I search to find if I can ID a mushroom!

Here was another jolly growth of Yellow Stagshorn.

Here was another CBC find.  He showed me this soon after I found something else exciting (in another post!). I wasn't sure if these were some sort of Oyster mushroom or the parasitic Shrimp of the Woods.  Still not sure! I didn't want to disturb it to ogle its gills!!

Finally, a cute little unidentified round fellow!

Any favourites here?

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Schwarzwalder Champignon

When I shared my Heidelberg Fungi post, I mentioned how disappointed I was at the amount of fungi I had seen this Autumn.  This is partially due to a lack of walks in the right places.  But luckily, we were headed to the Black Forest in Germany so I KNEW this was my chance to see some more interesting fungi.  But would I be able to spot them?

We were staying in the beautiful spa town of Bad Wildbad, where CBC and I had spent a couple of happy nights and days with his Brother some years ago.

We headed up the funicular railway to the Sommerberg and after a visit to the Tree top walk and the epic slide, we walked onwards through the forest.

And here's the first of a few posts of what I saw.

The first fungus I spotted was Yellow Stagshorn emerging out of a mossy stump of a tree. I've seen this a couple of times but a colourful fungus is always exciting!

Next, I saw this pinky/red fungus which I think was a Beech/Beechwood Sickener, Russula Nobilis, definitely a Brittlegill/Russula mushroom, if not that exact one.

The ones below, which were somewhat damaged (as is often the way with Brittlegills as they are tasty to insects!) were Russula atropurpurea, otherwise known as the Purple Brittlegill.

At this point, CBC had given up on me and walked ahead.

Once I got up close and personal to the leaves, I spotted more and more.

This orangey one below was intriguing to me.

And here's another view of it where you can see the light shining through its gills. This one was in better condition.

As there were plenty of these, I wanted to have a look at its gills so I tried to lift it up a bit but then it snapped.  This bright orange latex oozed out of it.

It wasn't till after the next day's walk and seeing plenty of these that I found an ID on this fungi-type. And it's a highly-sought after edible which is called the Saffron Milkcap or to use its rather delightful and apt Latin name, Lactarius Deliciosus!

Here was another example I thought, but now, looking at it, it's not the same one as it has a white stipe!

I'm not sure what this was.  Was it a Fly Agaric variety without its spots?

These pale pink mushrooms are perplexing me a bit. They could be Rosy Bonnets, Mycena Rosea but the shape is slightly confusing

It was hard to tell if this was a Russula Amethystina or another Purple Brittlegill! It had a big pool of water in it!

 In my first 20 minutes of looking, I was already happy to have seen to many but what would I find next? I had come with a wishlist of a few fungi I would like to see but would I see any of them??

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