The glass is striped. The most unusual mushrooms in the world Striped mushroom

Vaulted starfish (lat. )

It seems as if Mother Earth decided to create a mushroom in the image and likeness of man. The vaulted starfish really resembles a human figure. Also, this mushroom looks like a domed earth star. Therefore, the people, in the English-speaking countries, call it that. The second variant of the name is the acrobatic earth star.

It reaches a height of 4-8 cm. It is usually found singly or in small groups in the forests of North America and Europe, mainly in Mexico and the southwest of the United States of America. If you find this mushroom, you should know that it is inedible.

Brain tremor (lat. ) - forest brain

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Striped glass (lat. ) - a small bird's nest with miniature eggs

What tiny bird found this nest and laid its eggs in it? Calm down: this is not at all a matter of the wings of a miniature bird. We are talking about a beautiful striped glass mushroom, or, as it is also called, striped cyatus. You can find these in summer and autumn on dead wood in temperate regions around the planet: Asia, Europe, North, Central and South America, New Zealand. The color and size of striped glasses may differ slightly, but, as a rule, they are no more than 1 cm in width and height. The striped cyatus is gray or brown in color. By the way, in the scientific literature, tiny "eggs" are called peridioles.

Auricularia auricular (lat. ) - the forest hears everything

Ears in the middle of the forest? It looks like a David Lynch movie. But this can actually happen to you. You can even eat them if you like. In fact, these are mushrooms called auricular auricular. Their size varies from 3 to 12 cm. These reddish-brown "ears" can be found in humid places, mainly on dead deciduous trees and shrubs. Mushrooms grow all year round, but most often they can be found in the fall. They are widespread in temperate and subtropical climates around the world.

Mushroom auricularia auricular in Asia, especially in China, it is considered delicacy... It is specially grown on dead wood, for example, cork oak, elderberry, banana of paradise. While in the People's Republic of China, you can try the Chinese Black Mushroom Soup, an essential ingredient of which the aforementioned mushroom. Also, auricular auricular is used for preparing salads. In China, Ghana, Nigeria, it is believed that dishes made from these mushrooms are medicinal. In particular, the Chinese believe that soup with "ears" helps in the fight against colds and fevers.

Anturus archer (lat. Clathrus archeri) - devil's fingers, octopus or starfish?

When the Anturus archer mushroom opens, it looks like a starfish or an octopus. Usually has 4 to 7 pinkish-red "tentacles". Popularly known as the devil's fingers, the creepiest mushroom in the world... It is easy to recognize it not only by its appearance, but also by the terrible unpleasant smell of falling. The smell attracts flies, which spread spores. Anturus archer grows in groups, often among wood chips, old stumps and stale foliage. It originally grew in Australia and Tasmania, but now it can be found in Europe, North America, and Asia. Do not taste this mushroom when opened, it is inedible.

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Hydnellum pitch (lat. ) - "bleeding" mushroom

If you walk through the forests of North America and some European countries, you may find a mushroom with a frightening folk name, bloody tooth or devil's tooth... Although there are people who look at it from a culinary point of view. To them, the mushroom resembles ice cream with strawberry syrup.

Only young moist mushrooms can "bleed" with a bright red liquid. Interestingly, the liquid contains an effective anticoagulant. While gindellum pitch is young, it is easy to identify, but as it ages, the mushroom becomes brown and nondescript. "Bleeding" mushroom inedible, although it is not toxic. It tastes extremely bitter. The sizes of the mushroom range from 5 to 10 cm in height. Gindellum pitch grows on the ground under coniferous trees, often among mosses. A mutually beneficial relationship is established between the roots of some trees and these mushrooms, an exchange of useful substances takes place.

- dead man's fingers

When this mushroom is encountered on the way, it seems that the dead man tried to get out of his grave with his own hands. But again we are talking about mushrooms, the popular name of which is dead man's fingers... The inedible fungi Xylaria polymorpha appear in spring, most often on damaged stumps or rotten wood. At first they are bluish or bluish, then, by summer, the mushrooms gradually take on an ominous look to the human eye. Polymorpha means many forms. As the name suggests, the shape of the Xylaria polymorpha fungi is very diverse. But in most cases, the shape is club-shaped, that is, thickened at one end.

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Mature black mushrooms.

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Striped glass, striped nest, (Cyathus striatus Pers.)

Fruit bodies initially clavate, goblet, then oblong, 0.5-1 cm high., at the top 0.3-0.7 cm wide., at the bottom 0.1-0.2 cm wide. (Cejp, 0.8-1.6 cm high, 0.8-1 cm wide at the top), covered with peridium, sessile, at the base with a thick, felt, brown bedding.

Peridiumthree-layer, dense.

Exoperidiumcovered with long, protruding, sparse, rough, dark rusty-brown felt, consists of hyphae 4.8-9.6 r, thick., with buckles, branched, with thick, 1 µm, walls.

Mesoperidiumfrom hyphae 2.4 µm thick, with septa, unbranched, brown.

Endoperidiumthin, folded, longitudinally furrowed at the top, whitish or lead-gray, even at the bottom, dark to black, shiny, consists of hyphae 2.4 µm thick., with buckles, colorless.

Layerstightly connected to each other. The peridium opens at the top with a rounded opening, at first covered with a thin epiphragm and felt, which then disappear.

Glebdifferentiates into numerous peridiols attached by a whitish, very strong, long cord.

Peridiolilenticular, sometimes angular, 1.5-2 mm in diameter. (Cejp, 1.5-2 mm in diam.), gray or silver-brown, with a thick shell, the inner wall of which is lined with hymenium.

Shelltwo-layer: surface layer 50 µm thick, (according to Cejp, 20 µm thick) black; the sclerocial layer is compact, of cells 250-300 microns thick. (by Ceip, 100-300 µm thick).

Basidiaoblong-clavate, 7.8-8 by 6.5 microns, with 4 sessile spores (according to Cejp), rapidly disappearing.

Controversycylindrical-ellipsoidal, 15.6-20.4 by 8.4-12 microns, more often 16.8-19.2 by 9.6-10.8 microns (according to Cejp, 16-22 by 10-12 microns), smooth, colorless, episporium 2-2.4 microns, thick.

Growing: on rotten wood, leaves, branches of various tree species, on the stems of various herbaceous plants, as well as on the soil, mostly in shaded areas in deciduous and coniferous forests, gardens, parks.

Season: April - May and again September - November.

Edibility: inedible.

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Locations in Kazakhstan... East Kazakhstan region, on the road from Chelikta, after the Monrak pass, 8 / VII 1958, M.P. Vasyagina.
On Populus tallassica Bot., 1934 (Salicaceae); Alma-Ata region, tugai along the river Chilik, at the exit from the Turaigyr mountains, 2 / VIH 1964, N. M. Filimonova. Distributed in the foothills of the Zailiyskiy Alatau.

Area... Primorsky Territory, Transbaikalia, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukrainsa, Krasnodar Territory; England, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, China, India, Japan, North America.

You have probably come across these small mushrooms, which are often found in summer cottages under old and poorly groomed shrubs, and wherever they have something to feast on. And they feast on any dead plant organic matter - on leaves, trunks, stumps. Glasses are widespread and occur from early July to late autumn. Sometimes during the warm season, the colony experiences several growth waves on one fallen tree.

The glasses got their name for the shape of the fruiting body, resembling a glass or goblet. They are also called nests because the adult mushrooms look like a tiny bird's nest. However, in the systematization of mushrooms, nests and goblets are distinguished into separate genera, therefore, from a strict point of view, it is problematic to establish an exact species correspondence from a strict point of view.

Glasses are small mushrooms, up to a centimeter high. Young glasses are light and covered with a white film; as they grow, they darken, the film breaks and the inner part opens, on which round spore storages are noticeable. In striped cups (Cyathus striatus), dark and light stripes are clearly visible on the inner surface of the cup.

Glasses have no practical value for humans. But some lovers of minimalism aesthetics decorate their miniature gardens with branches brought from the forest with tiny mushrooms. A very specific art.