Fungi Lovers digest -- Jan. 2021

The holidays have passed away a month ago, but the laziness is still here, with me! I could not kick myself to write a new FL digest for almost two weeks! But the curation process was going non-stop, you may be sure of that, all of your posts submitted receive attention and support. So, lets review some old posts from December, before I can get myself to the current posts.

not a big news

Some figures 1st, for the record. We crossed the line and up to date we are 504 subscribers, 74 active posters, and had 352 interactions last week. Community account reached the total power of 2553 HP (thanks to @ocd, @qwerrie, @bambuka, @keuudeip and @portal-xenna for their delegation). As you know from previous posts, FL is a part of @OCD community incubation program -- you may wanna check the link above for full details. In brief, it means @OCD encourages hiveans to post to dedicated communities by giving back nice upvotes for great posts. (OCD discord channel, in case you have questions or wanna thank back). We just kindly ask: go for quality, instead of quantity. No need to spam over the place with low quality posts, that will get you no readers; its pointless and waste of your lifetime.

Recently there was an intresting initiative from @bambuka. The idea is to remember your 1st mushroom post on the blockchain, be it Steemit or Hive, and 'refresh it' -- or #Relay, as he put it. Check for details here, the older fungi lovers probably will be pleased to shake some old memories. And you also may find pleasurable to check these four #fungirelay posts so far:

qwerrie:	my 1st mushroom post
ewkaw:	my 1st blockchain mushrooms
castleberry:	my 1st mushroom post
yetaras:	my 1st mushroom post

..and now, lets look back at some nice photo stories from December.

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@OCD- curated posts

@sketch.and.jam took some nice studio macros of Oysters he is growing at home - unusual lighting brought these cool visuals.

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@marianomariano was lucky and keen eye to find a Cordyceps -- pretty rare mushroom with medicinal qualities. Do check the post to educate yourself.

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Toothed jelly fungus, false hedgehog mushroom, cat's tongue - another intresting one of thousand edible mushroom species I have no idea about! Funny name, and stunning shapes. The pics and the story brought by @marianomariano.

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@olga.maslievich had an intresting encounter right at the streets of her city with this Nectria canker fungus - a real aliens invasion!

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@dolov had a nice trophei harvested off the Ukrainian forest - and shared it with us. Look at the trees covered with loads of edible honey agarics.

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Some great macros by @whisky2, again, from Ukrainian forest - capturing the autumn mood perfectly.

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@ridor5301 found a beautiful fuscia tree mushrooms from Aceh forest, Indonesia. A beautiful contrast to what we meet in northern hemisphere.

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Another take on tree fungi of Aceh by @deltasteem - awesome macro captures.

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@ladysnowhite from Serbia shared some tasty edible Umbrella mushrooms (Macrolepiota). And, beware, a little hedgehog made a visit in her post!

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And that is all for today. Pay the attention to the authors -- they bring and share beautiful content with us. All the best, and next time! And a happy #FungiFriday to you !!

As a little reminder: we have a nice fun challenge at HIVE, hold by @EwkaW. I hope many of you will join, as there are only 2 simple rules:

• when Friday comes, share your fungi with us! post your own, original photo/drawing/art/food/anything-at-all of any type of fungi (yes, stolen images will be checked and reported !)
• add #fungifriday (not necessarily must be your 1st tag). that's all!