If someone had told me that I would have a post for the Fungi Friday community this Friday, I wouldn't have believed them. After a little mischief that the cute snowman doll did in last week's post (he drank some wine and ate half of that exclusive mushroom while I was not at home), I am returning to the community today, but with a little less interesting finding.
To make up for that, I am bringing this fungus from a very nice place. From one Botanical Garden located in Malaga. 🌿 If we needed a more precise location inside the Botanical Garden, it was in Ruta de los Miradores - Route of the Viewpoints.
The day was super sunny and even our shadows decided to take this walk with us. All in all, we spent three hours (or a bit more) in this Botanical Garden so I will bring more plants and views from here, however, the highlight of this path was something suitable for #FungiFriday.
It was a narrow path, nothing special in that sense, but here we heard many birds and felt the freshness of nature. There was one birdwatching cottage in the parallel path that was higher than the one we took (the plan was to climb the other path after some time but in the end, we stayed on the Route of the Viewpoints.
The tall pine trees that grew by the path lived peacefully with other subtropical flora and native plants. The autumn colours of the foliage of the huge pine trees were also visible among the greenery of other trees. Sometimes we stopped at the viewpoints and watched the mountains of Malaga
I watched all the time the tops of tall trees and forgot to look around at the ground. I didn't even think about looking for mushrooms; I wasn't expecting them...
But then my husband noticed this tree and asked me if I would like to hug it because it looked awesome - with a hint that I should be careful because I could slip down; the ground was steep. Mission accomplished - we can see that I hugged the tree carefully and that I didn't fall as I am writing this post. From the angle from where he took this picture, he saw that one of the trees behind the tree I hugged had fungus.
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Thanks to him I turned around and found the little surprise.
I would not be able to identify the type of this fungi. Maybe something like Fungus Velvetus? 😂
It looked as if it was covered in a velvet cloak, light brown in colour and dark green - which might have been mould.
This is probably not the most interesting type of fungus, still, it was cool to see it this morning (I behaved and didn't touch it). And I can draw one conclusion from this event: Even when you are distracted by tall trees and views, there are hopes of finding mushrooms - just and exclusively in cases when you hug trees! 🤗 😆
