Hello Everyone and happy Friday for all of you...
This my entry to #FungiFriday challenge by
@ewkaw in Fungi Friday Community
This time I'm back to show some photos of mushrooms that I got in a pile of Palm Oil dregs. As you know, every Friday comes, we will post about mushrooms and everything about them, so this time I will try to show some of my portraits in this post.
Piles of Palm Oil dregs are a place for several types of mushrooms, and Fairy Inkcap is the type most often found there. Even so, this time I found some that were slightly different from Fairy Inkcap which could be seen from their shape. Some time ago I have also showed some Inkcap mushrooms and we are all very familiar with Inkcap mushrooms from their distinctive shape, but some of the mushrooms that I found this time are slightly different even though they live in the habitat of Inkcap mushrooms.
I'll start with one of the edible mushrooms. This mushroom is an oyster mushroom and today I found it in a pile of palm oil dregs. The Oyster Mushroom has the characteristic of its calyx which is jagged and looks spiky. This mushroom can be consumed and tastes very good, usually this mushroom is cooked with vegetables or other foods and makes the dish more delicious.
But because I found this mushroom in the land that was given fertilizer, I didn't eat it for fear of being contaminated by the fertilizer from the Oil Palm farmers.
Some Oyster Mushrooms actually have petals that are not jagged and make them look a bit neat. However, all the oyster mushrooms here are white and grow in clusters on several sides of the oil palm residue. The oyster mushroom itself has a soft structure at the top, when viewed from below, we can see the composing lines which seem to make it look hollow. Oyster mushroom has a slightly thick shape and has wide and swell petals.
If you pay attention, if the Oyster Mushrooms are not jagged on the petals, they are almost similar to Angel Wing Mushrooms, which are mushrooms from the Phyllotopsidaceae family which also have a shape with expanding petals and are also white in color. However, if you look more closely, the Oyster Mushroom has a pattern on the inside of the petals with a lighter color.
This is very important to distinguish the oyster mushroom from other similar mushrooms.
Apart from Oyster Mushrooms, I found several mushrooms from the Collybia type, these mushrooms are the size of Inkcap mushrooms and also have almost the same shape. Collybia is a mushroom with a shape like an umbrella, and they are wild mushrooms that grow on several trees and also in damp places of course. This fungus dries very easily, therefore this fungus grows in dark places and is not too exposed to sunlight. This mushroom has a single stem and petals like an open umbrella and not too big. This mushroom also mostly has a clean white color with a soft surface and not too big in size. I got this fungus in the oil palm trees and they grow in several parts of the tree.
Between the palm trees, I also found several mushrooms growing in piles, and I'm sure these mushrooms are also of the Collybia type. This mushroom, which has the same characteristics as Collybia, grows a lot between the palm trees and because of that it was a little difficult for me to photograph it because of its difficult location.
This is natural because their habitat is indeed in a place that is not exposed to sunlight and in a dark and damp place.
So those are some of the mushrooms I got in a pile of palm dregs today, hope you guys like them and see you on another #FungiFriday post in next week.