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Porcini mushrooms in summer forest. Young King bolete in lush green moss

Geastrum triplex is a fungus found in the detritus and leaf litter of hardwood forests around the world. It is commonly known as the collared earthstar, the saucered earthstar, or the triple earthstar

A Parasol Mushroom on moorland in Cornwall in early autumn

A family of umbrella mushrooms in front of a cut down tree. The ground of the forest is covered in leaves and branches.

a parasom mushroom with a big cap with vertical gills closeup in a grassland in a forest in autumn

High angle view of a growing Amanita citrina mushroom (a.k.a. the false death cap or citron amanita). Poisonous mushroom. Copy space

Wild forest sawdust mushrooms on a tree, green moss, leaf background. edible mushroom artillery or honeydew

$Description:\nThe cap is convex to depressed and is coloured a distinctive bloody red, pink, crimson or purple. Sometimes it may show a yellowish or orange tinge in the centre. It may measure between 6 and 20 cm in diameter. The flesh is white with a mild taste and without scent; it quickly becomes soft and spongy and also greyish. The crowded gills are cream coloured when young, and become yellow with age. They are adnexed and are generally thin. Their edges may sometimes occur reddish. The amyloid, elli spores measure 8–10 by 7–10 μm are warty and are covered by an incomplete mesh. The stem is white, sometimes with a pink hue, slightly clubbed. It may measure 5 to 15 cm in height and up to 3 cm in diameter.\nDistribution, ecology and habitat:\nR. paludosa is mycorrhizal and occurs in coniferous woodlands and in peat bogs of Europe and North America; preferably under pine trees, where it forms mycorrhizae. Locally it can be very common.\nEdibility:\nThe mushroom is edible and is a common good in Finnish markets.\n\nThis Nice Russula was found in the Voorsterbos (Noordoostpolder), the Netherlands, near a Pine Tree in October 2022.$

mushroom growing in a mossy forest background.

Fly agaric red (Amanita muscaria) on the forest ground in autumn

Homemade mushrooms and mycelium, champignon. Mushrooms growing.

wild mushroom at park of glasgow scotland england UK

Edible mushrooms in the Finnish forest in autumn.

A wicker basket stands next to an aspen tree in a forest clearing.

Wild mushroom growing in the lush rainforest on Vancouver Island.

A round mushroom, alone, in a forest. Mycelium, fungi, fungal.

$Hericium erinaceus Pers. Igel-Stachelbart, Szakállas süngomba, Hydne hérisson, Bearded Tooth. Fruit body a solid cushion giving rise to long pendulous crowded spines; whitish at first discolouring yellowish with age, spines up to 6cm long. Gloeocystidia present as elongated undulating organs with refractive contents. Spores subglobose, minutely warted, amyloid, 4–5.5 x 5–6.5um. Habitat growing from scars on living deciduous trees, especially beech. Season late summer to autumn. Occasional. Edible. Distribution, America and Europe (source R. Phillips).$

This summer and autumn species is considerd to be inedible. Many authorities give this genus family status as Crepidotaceae, while others include the genus Crepidotus within the family Inocybaceae; this should be a warning that these little fungi are not for eating, as some Inocybe species are deadly poisonous.

A tiny acorn on the forest floor swaddled in the cap of another acorn. It has a baby Jesus feel to it.

Close-up of a parasitic tree fungus on a tree trunk during the day in summer

Cep (Porcini Mushroom) growing in the autumn forest

Edible Mushroom, Porcini Mushroom, Karelia, Russia, Karelia, Close-up, Forest

$Fomitopsis pinicola (Swartz ex Fr.) Karsten. Fichtenporling Unguline marginee. Fruit body perennial; no stem. Up to 38cm across, 20cm wide, 15cm thick, convex to hoof-shaped, with a thickened, rounded margin; upper surface with a sticky reddish-brown resinous crust, then grayish to brown or black; hard, woody, smooth or glossy-looking. Tubes up to 6mm deep per season; cream to buff. Pores 5-6 per mm, circular; surface cream-colored. Flesh up to 12cm thick, corky, hard, woody; cream to buff, sometimes zoned. Spores cylindrical ellipsoid, smooth, 6-9 x 3.5-4.5µ. Deposit whitish. Hyphal structure trimitic; clamps present. Habitat on dead conifer stumps and logs and occasionally on living trees. Found throughout Europe and most of North America except the South from Texas eastward. Season all year. Not edible. Comment The most commonly collected polypore in North America. The cap colors are rather variable (source R. Phillips).\n\nThis beautiful Species is nowadays quite common in the Netherlands and growing on different Trees.$

Gray snail on brown mushroom in autumn forest.

Red mushroom in close up on a late autumn day

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