To recreate the piptoporus betulinus mushroom in the primary image above, I used buttons and rubber bands on black fabric to then bleach dye. I think this sample emulates the fungi pattern to a certain extent, and in a design could be a base fabric.
Piptoporus betulinus, once dried and used to sharpen razors and knives.
Picture taken March 15.
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As some of you may know, I grew up near the sea, but I now live in the greater Cologne area. This Weekend is Karneval-Season, which I find excruciatingly strenuous, so I decided to get out to the forest.
I was hoping for some Oister-Mushrooms and maybe some Judas-Ears, but it's been a pretty warm few days so my hopes weren't high, as we're now reaching the very end of winter. Coincidentally this is also the very beginning of the season for deer to loose their antlers, so I was hoping to maybe come across some of those.
The forest I chose wasn't my usual territory. Instead I traveled to a forest on the other side of the rhine. On my way from the station to the woods I stopped by a local supermarket chain and "foraged" some bread I had forgotten to buy the day before and also met some very friendly sheep on the way.
At this point it started to rain a little so I hurried into the forest.
Did you know that large parts of the German forest are currently threatened by a plague of bark beetles? The trees can usually fight them off but after a decade of dry summers and warm winters the trees are severely weakened. It's one of the first effects human-caused climate change is having on northern Europe.
It's not yet quite warm enough for symbiotic mushrooms like porcinis to flourish but a little to warm for most parasitic winter fungi to develop fruits. You can walk into a forest with the intention of foraging a specific mushroom but whether you succeed is up to the forest.
The mushroom I came across the most often is this little fella, the Trametres Ochracea (Ockerfarbene Tramete), a parasitic mushroom that feeds on all kinds of dead wood. I say little, but these guys can get BIG.
(I have large hands)
Unfortunately they are not edible, just like the Daedaleopsis Confragosa from the same family.
Barely into the forest a raven flew by; I took the time to mind Odin on my way into the woodland.
Most dead birch carried the Piptoporus Betulinus (Brikenporling), which aren't edible, but they can be made into a healing tee that has some antibiotic effects.
I took a little one home for my altar.
These are Flammulina Velutipes ("Velvet Shank" or "Gemeiner Samtfußrübling"), the first edible mushrooms I found today. They usually grow in the cracks of dead but also alive trees and form thin, sticky fruits 2 to 10cm across.
I thanked Vidar and the spirits of his dominion by stacking some stones and then decided to head home, because at this point I was holy lost. While i didn't find any of the things I was looking for I'm still very happy with the day. I learned a bit about new mushrooms and I got a break from the city.
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Vandaag: Foto’s mooie collectie PADDENSTOELEN en beschrijving paddenstoelen
Paddenstoel (schimmel)
Vliegenzwam Een mandje paddenstoelen, vooral champignons Berkenzwam (Piptoporus betulinus)Groene knolamaniet met hoed, steel, manchet en beurs.
Een paddenstoel is het vruchtlichaam van veel soorten van schimmels…
Tıbbı düşündüğümüzde, hastane veya doktorun ofisini, steril alanları ve bizi daha iyi hissettiren şeyleri hayal ediyoruz. Ancak, binlerce yıl önce hastalıkların iyileştirilmesinde kullanılan ilaçlar bugünkünden biraz farklı görünüyordu.
Tarih öncesi dönemde tıp çok geniş bir dönemi kapsıyor ve dünyanın bölgelerine- kültürlerine göre değişiklik gösteriyor. Antropologlar, insanlık tarihini…
Threaded onto narrow strips of hide are two lumps of Piptoporus betulinus, a fungus known as birch polypore. This fungus has antibiotic compounds, and is highly toxic to whipworm – a parasite whose eggs were found in Ötzi's colon.
Hoping to show here the rough progression of this mushroom, which starts as a sort of bulbous growth, which extends on a short pseudo-stipe and flattens into a shelf which can be up to 30cm across.