Short Trip Around the Cobalt Fungus

"He's looking at you, Kids!" (c) David Bowie

Hola, setero! As it is Friday today... Friday is for Fungi, so today's blog is dedicated to fungi...

...to one certain fungus to be correct, which I traveled around tonigh, a few hours -- in Photoshop. All images you see are dissections of a single fungus I stumbled upon in Karelia pine forest in September. It was a rare encounter: I think maybe its the 2nd or third time I meet such fungus.

You probably ask me right from the start about its edibility and cooking qualities. Well, skip the blog to the end if you d like to find itout. But I should note -- this fungus is not about eating, it is rather about watching, about amazing invisible horizons that one can discover in his shapes.

And now, the other side of the Moon... i.e. the opposide angle on same fungus --

From this side its tissues have suffered less from the stick that pierced it, and we can see more or less natural shapes of this fungus. Azure-colored lichens also provide very pleasant visual impressions.

Harsh at the foot, but fluffy on its top.

And.... as promised in the beginning of the post: I identified this specie as Hydnellum Caeruleum. And no, it is nor edible neither forageable fungus - but very spectacular and memorable. Thats what we like it for!

Now that was all; hope you enjoyed the visual pleasures of this wild cobalt creature. have a great weekend my dear friends, and I hope you will see fantastic stuff even in the most common and trivia stuff right around the corner of the street!