Do you know how small things and findings can make you happy? You know that feeling, right? Sometimes such tiny living beings, such as mushrooms, can bring a huge smile to your face. Especially if you see them and they pose for you. Ok, they wouldn't have run away anyway, but it's nice to imagine that they also wanted to show themselves to you. And they showed up, after one day of rain a week ago, and before the flood that I experienced in the garden and on the streets of the city.
I would never see this in Spain. It is the end of July and mushrooms are growing from the trees. But here, where the continental climate prevails, I have seen that it is possible to see mushrooms in the summer.
The first sets of photos have been shot in the garden of my old house. Among the many fruit trees, I saw this tree with nice green decorative details, mushrooms. If I am not mistaken, this would be Turkey tail.
Comparing to the info I found, I can see the similarity with this type of mushroom, hence my conclusion that it is Trametes versicolor, aka commonly called turkey tail. I see on the cap those concentric zones of colours, in this case, grey, white and green. So this green can mean that the mushrooms I found are already some older ones. The green algae are responsible for their greenish colour.
The underside of the fleshy mushrooms is brown. It shines as if it were plush or leather, and it looks wrinkled. As if it's a completely different mushroom, it doesn't look like its upper surface at all. But, they are the same mushrooms from that tree from the garden.
However, the mushrooms decided to show up not just in that one tree in the garden. One day, as I was enjoying some walks, they appeared in the logs and stumps in one street. Hey, hey, mipiano, look at us, we are some small pink mushrooms. No name though, just cute, tiny pink fungi.
Close to those tiny pink ones, there was another fungi, different shape and a bit bigger. I am pretty sure that it is the same type but older. What do you think?
I saw a snail on the same stump. Maybe he was on the same mushroom visit.
Still the same stump ... another kind of mushroom, they grew on the side. In this picture, we can see the pink small mushrooms, the snail and these other species.
And, it's not all. Same stump, another side. The thing I can’t identify, but assuming it’s a fungus, will find its place in this post. Mass of light colour, with brown spots.
That day I was lucky, indeed. As walking a bit further, in the same street, new ones were waiting for me :) Like this white, thick mushroom with a brown coloured cap. It was a pleasure to see it, making a nice combination of colours with the green moss on the tree.
Happiness was already great in my heart and the delight of all these different findings. And then I saw a mushroom, of course in the same street I was walking on, which had the shape of a pancake. It stretched on the surface of a stump. My lucky day. Or was it just because of the previous rainy day?
We didn't have to go a lot further, and we even didn't have to go to another street. You guess what? More mushrooms came on my way. What a lucky street and day!! These group of fungi, I think already old ones, were on some plum trees. Many plum trees can be found here, the fruits will be ripe soon, end of July and beginning of August. It was a bit awkward to see those mushrooms on those trees, but hey, they wanted to come into this post for #FungiFriday, the cool fungi event held by @ewkaw every Friday.
