Macro Photography - Fern Shoots & Unique Mushrooms
About two days ago I went to the forest to look for some interesting macro objects to photograph and my eyes fell on the young shoots of a plant that is still in the fern family. This wild plant grows well by itself, but the village people do not pick the fern shoots that I share to make vegetables like other fern shoots. They are of the opinion that this fern shoot cannot be used as a vegetable, meaning it should not be consumed because they are worried that it contains toxic compounds.
Out of curiosity, I finally chose to find out a little about these wild fern shoots and it turned out that these fern shoots were shoots from a fern plant with the Latin name Stenochlaena palustris.
"Stenochlaena palustris (Vietnamese: choại, Tagalog: dilimán or hagnaya) is an edible medicinal fern species. In the folk medicines of India and Malaysia, the leaves of this fern are used as remedies for fever, skin diseases, ulcers, and stomachache." Wikipedia
Based on this source, this fern plant can actually be eaten and even used as traditional medicine by the people of India & Malaysia. Indeed, there is a slight difference between the fern shoots which are generally used as vegetables in Indonesia and the fern that I am sharing. The difference is that the color of the shoots that I am sharing is slightly red compared to the fern shoots which are usually used as vegetables which are green like the color of the leaves.
Apart from fern shoots, I also found mushrooms which were quite unique in my opinion. This is because initially I saw this mushroom growing like mushrooms in general, then I photographed this mushroom in its original grow place which was covered by leaves. However, I was not satisfied with the results of the photo & finally I moved the mushroom cover so I was surprised, this was because I saw the mushroom stem was like a plant stem or not like mushroom stems in general.
Just like the fern shoots above, I was very curious about this mushroom. Finally I want to know what mushroom this is? So I used the help of Google Lens but didn't find suitable results, but there is a mushroom with a stem like that, namely the Auriscalpium vulgare mushroom. Well, it's possible that the mushroom I'm sharing is part of the Auriscalpium vulgare mushroom. And I have uploaded photos of some of the unique mushrooms that I mean below, here are some photos:
| Camera | Smartphone + Macro Lens |
|---|---|
| Category | Macro Photography |
| Processed | Lightroom |
| Location | Tanah Luas, Indonesia |