Hello everyone and warm welcome to my blog again.
It's good to be back here to share some inedible mushrooms I captured on my walk. As we know inedible mushrooms are poisonous and shouldn't be eaten so it's always advisable to be on the lookout for them when foraging.
One notable thing about inedible mushrooms is that most of them are found growing on decomposing or dry woods and tree stumps.
I found this one growing on an already dried palm tree and I searched to know the name and fount out that or it is called violet-toothed polypore
Violet-toothed polypore usually
grows in overlapping clusters and layers on fallen logs, dead trees and hardwood stumps. The reason they are found on such places is that they are active part of the decomposition process of the wood.
Sometimes they can be found on standing trees but they cause a sapwood rust in them so you don't have to be surprised when you see them.
The violet-toothed polypore colors are grey, white and purple.
Another one I captured is dryad's saddle
This one also grows on dead trees decomposing wood, logs, stumps and trunks and occasionally on living trees too. I found this one on an already dead log.
Dryad's saddle are usually large sized, with striking scales and smells like watermelon.
It's colors are black, brown, cream, yellow and bronze.
Both violet-toothed polypore and dryad's saddle are in the bracket fungi family and can be used for paper making.
When they mature and dries off just like these ones.
That's all there is with the inedible mushrooms I captured, hope you like them.
Thank you for reading.
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