Cup Fungi (Cookeina Speciosa) || 10% to shy-fox

abduhawab (78)mod【 Chief Executive Mod】✴️✴️✴️in Beauty of Creativity • 2 years ago

So, I went back to have fun with mushroom hunt, I went down thru a narrow path to get a little bush was filled by moss and there there was a trunk where this mushroom grew. Soon, I reached the place, I noticed a pair of mushroom grew on a rotten trunk which instantly tempted me to take a few shots with my DSLR . Indeed, it is tiny subject which troubled me with the focus but I finally handled it.

FYI, not all mushrooms are edible, and many of them are dangerous even lead to death. I am not sure if they are eatable, and I did not want to do experiment either. I just found them lived on the death wood or called as the death wood toadstool, if I am not mistaken. Its look tempted me to take some photos and here the results.

In scientific name this mushroom is called Cookeina Speciosa or cup fungus and typically characterized by a disk- or cup-shaped structure (apothecium) bearing spore sacs (asci) on its surface.

Unlike the cultivated mushroom, this kind of mushroom or I prefer call ear-like mushroom lives wildly, and remain untouchable. They use the dead wood to grow. People are not interested to cultivate or pick them for free. Yep! I found this mushroom in every death wood and nobody dare to consume.

As we know, the mushrooms also cultivated for medicinal properties to cure chronic bronchitis, coronary heart disease and cancer. Although it grew in dirt place does not make it dirty. When I saw the first click was good, I started to take other shots from various angles with faded backgrounds, this would add up the living color from the taken object.