What do we most hope for after the rain?
Rainbow?
Nah.
Going outside?
Nah.
Wait, wait until I guess one more time...
Mushrooms?
Yes!
The air humidity is immeasurable at the moment, I feel like I'm living in a rain forest, and there are hardly any forests around, a sweet little irony of life. We recently found a starter package with mushrooms on the Internet, we've been wanting to grow them for a long time, but we're also quite skeptical.
The package consists of a cardboard box that has a couple of slits in which the mycelium is placed, all that is needed is to open the slit and wait... But, that sounds boring, almost the same like going mushroom shopping, so the idea is on hold so far.
Meanwhile all over the yard little brownish buttons appeared, usually my nose is stuck in the clouds and rarely in front of me so I managed to flatten few ones with my clumsy steps.
Some are so tiny, barely visible and others tried to hide themselves behind grass. Don't know why I always feel sorry stepping on shroomies, but dear darling crushed dozens as they found themselves on the way to the garden.
I've spent some time yelling across the yard "no, stop, watch, don't step on it, why did you crushed it"...and so on, until I felt like we are running out of the decent whole and eager to pose little ones.
Getting in the house, grabbing the camera, running out, laying down on the wet grass, snap - snap.
Barely 5 cm tall hats, placed on the thin stem. Older ones are darker brown with straighten out cap, while the youngsters are wearing the traditional recognizable shroom shape.
Ofc I had many questions about and dear darling wasn't much in the mood for explaining (he run away from me), and I have to ask google, again!
Usually asking google for something brings you A LOT of answers, and potential confusion.
Is this or that?
According to the 5 minutes screen stare, comparing my photos with google photos these are Agrocybe pediades, well they are common lawn mushrooms and we have a huge one to host them all!
How I knew these are those?
In older specimens, cracks appear on the edges of the caps, like stretch marks when the skin expands.
Actually...
I had some great photos of the Mica caps, in hope that I would post them on #FungiFriday, but my SD card decided to die, and take all the content with it.
(oopsie)
It's shame cause the light was astonishing and thin lines over caps were visible so nicely, and I wanted to edit them wonderfully, and...
..this is what I actually got from Mica caps, barely leftovers, black stain, mushroom cemetery.
No trace of the beauty I mentioned, literally.
All this could be seen around that tree stump that we still keep in the yard just because...
..of these! Bracket fungus!
It's been almost half a year since the mushrooms settled in the stump, and now it's too much fun for us to watch the transformation, who comes and who leaves.
Beneath was Mica caps, since they are officially gone now I am waiting excited to see who is next!
I didn't touch them, even tho they are so plush and tempting to cuddle, something irresistibly reminiscent of corals was hidden among the plushness.
Google couldn't recognize them, dear darling was still keeping himself fairly enough far away in order to avoid another splash of questions, so anyone, knows what are these stone shrooms lookalike?
I'll be patiently waiting on the answer till the next #FungiFriday by the 