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Hello everyone, again on this occasion we will make a post for Fungi Friday, which of course in this post I will show some photos of one of the mushrooms that I found in the forest area. Most mushrooms are synonymous with winter or the rainy season and they can be everywhere, but these types of mushrooms will be very difficult to find in other seasons besides the rainy season and even though there are certainly places where it is humid and also watery like forests or swamps. Mushrooms themselves are decomposers, therefore they will grow on dead plants and of course in damp places.
Because coincidentally this week in my area the seasons have started to change, what used to be the rainy season has now become summer where moist places for mushroom habitats are hard to find. Therefore I looked for it in the forest area and this time I found one of the mushrooms which, if translated in Latin, this mushroom is called Leucopacillus Giganteus, or you can call it the Giant Funnel Mushroom. I found this mushroom between dead logs and a little covered by bushes, and unfortunately I almost stepped on it and luckily I still saw it. This mushroom has a fairly large size with widened petals.
This mushroom has a wide petal size, and its size is larger than the grass on the bushes. You can recognize it right away because of its size, and usually this mushroom only grows singly in some parts of dead logs or between bushes. According to information from several sites on the Internet, this mushroom contains bioactive compounds with antibiotic properties, of course this is very useful as a treatment, but I myself do not know which part of this fungus has these compounds. At first I thought this mushroom had poison which in some mushrooms even had poison that could kill those who ate it.
This mushroom has a white base color, where the top of the petals is pure white and the texture is very soft like cotton. The shape of the petals is actually a circle, but because the age of this mushroom is getting older, it will affect the shape of the petals as well. The older this mushroom, the petals will have a shape like rolling and make this mushroom have its own shape and characteristics.
There are several growth variations of this mushroom that make it very unique. They can grow in stages with only one main stem, usually they have three tiers and the top tier has smaller petals. In addition, some of them also have pink spots around the surface of their pure white petals. Motives like this are very unique and rarely seen in other types of mushrooms. On the underside apart from the upper surface of their calyx there are gill-like grooves that adorn the underside of this mushroom. The habitat of this fungus is in damp places around forests, meadows, and sometimes yards filled with shrubs and grass. Some rumors say that this mushroom can be consumed when it is young, but to avoid bad risks, we should not eat it before there are certain instructions and studies that say that this mushroom can be eaten.
Besides the mushrooms above, I also found mushrooms that live on the surface of dead wood. This mushroom has a greenish and brown color, which is very good color when viewed from afar. Since the rainy season is over, the mushrooms are already looking a bit dry and in a few days I think they will die because they don't have enough moisture.
This mushroom has a semicircular shape of petals like a fan, and when viewed in more detail, the surface of their petals seems to have fine, irregular lines. These mushrooms grow in groups and can usually grow along the trunks of the trees they sit on, and mushrooms like this are also found in many trees that are still alive. Maybe if they live on a living tree, they will gnaw it until the log is filled with mushrooms like this.
Those are some of the mushrooms that I got today in the forest area. Hope you guys like it and see you on the next Fungi Friday post.