#FungiFriday - Daedaleopsis confragosa
Good morning, FungiFriends!
Here is my contribution to #FungiFriday by @ewkaw :)
Today I'm sharing some photos I took last Sunday, when I went for an 18 km walk. A few meters after leaving home, still less than 1 km away, I came across a tree stump in front of a restaurant that was very famous here in my town. Unfortunately, Covid and changing financial and market conditions have thrown this establishment into bankruptcy. Of the "spoils" left behind, there remains a stump of what would have been a leafy tree outside (I remember it had a generous canopy of green foliage, which offered pleasant shade to those waiting for a table outside on hot, sunny summer afternoons).
Today it is nothing more than a remnant of a trunk in a concrete pot (a former sewage manhole), which has more or less been transformed into a garbage can for passers-by.
But it was neither the garbage nor the stump that caught my eye. A group of concentrically arranged, fan-shaped fruiting bodies, superimposed on top of each other in groups that seemed to have been deliberately placed to arouse the curiosity of passers-by, managed to captivate me for a few brief minutes.
Obviously, I stopped to take a closer look... With the presence of pores in the hymenium, and without a real hat, this fungus, which is considered a parasite and not edible, subtly decorates what was once a generous canopy.
Now at home, and with the help of Google Lens, the classification of this fungus was practically instantaneous... Which, for a guy from 1978, is something of a surprise (even though I'm fully aware of technological developments, I still remember, in my secondary school days, having to go to the municipal library in a neighboring town (by train or bus, a 20-minute journey), to look for books in the library that could help me satisfy my curiosity). Fortunately, Biology and Health, as well as Geography, were subjects I didn't have to leave home for. I had several encyclopedias at home and I put them to good use... Afternoons and evenings spent leafing through their pages, eager for knowledge, and always amazed to discover the world around me through a set of books that I considered, and still consider, to be invaluable! Even today it's hard for me to underline the books that are mine, such was my habit of treasuring textbooks at school. Ahahah
I was saying, this fungus is a pathogen that causes white root rot in hardwood trees. Their semi-circular, firm bodies (I didn't touch them... I didn't want to spoil the "gift" for another curious guy like me), have a golden brown color on their upper side, with a whitish underside, which progressively changes color until it reaches a greyish brown complexion during the maturation process.
First taxonomically included in the Boletos family, it was later assigned the genus Daedaleopsys - a reference to Daedalus - Architect of Labyrinths in Greek Mythology, and curiously also a full node cryptocurrency wallet from the Cardano blockchain! Ahahah What a coincidence, right? 🤑
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I'm looking forward to posting more in this community!
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Bem Hajam🍀
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wow this is very beautiful, when I saw the first photo I thought the wooden item was deliberately left so that beautiful mushrooms could grow there, it turns out my guess was wrong😁😁
Yep! Exactly the other way around. And now that the house next to the restaurant building is being refurbished for selling, I don't believe that this original flower vase will stand much longer...
Hello dear friend @xrayman good morning
The arrival of covid has been devastating for businesses, who thinks they know that this is one of them
What a beautiful mushroom, it is incredible that it developed there. Beautiful photographs, I appreciate you sharing.
I take this opportunity to wish you a great weekend.
Thank you for your kind comment. Sending back a wish of a wonderful week, my friend!
We still have shelves filled with encyclopedias nobody uses now.
One particularly I liked - gigantic that weights a few kg I'd say. I used to love checking it as it had lots of tiny images stuck between tiny letters. An encyclopedia bible :) We still have it. Not in the best shape but I still love it.
Awwwww I can picture so well the scenario and encyclopedia that you described! Their uniqueness and their value is something that makes them a object much more valuable then it's residual value... The last time that I've been in Rua do Carmo, I saw a street seller woman, that detached the pages of a old encyclopedia, and was selling page by page of the drawings and diagrams... You can picture that by selling page by page (at 10-15€) the amount of money that she will get for it! Let's hope that those pages, since they aren't going to be again reunited in the same book, became a "piece" of art only for being exposed in a wall.
Oh... I love old diagrams! You didnt take a photo by any chance?
The images in "my" one are small. I found it online. It is exactly like that :). I cant remember what is the year of my one though. Early 80's I guess.
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The Encyclopedia that I've seen in Lisbon, by the street counter, I didn't took pictures... (to my great regret).
But the encyclopedia I'm talking about, which I used to consult as a child and which fascinated me, I think it's still in my mother's house. I'll see if I can take a photo of the pages and pictures when I go there one of these days. One thing's for sure, our imagination and memory sometimes play tricks on us. When we remember something with nostalgia, and then revisit that memory, it sometimes doesn't have the same magic. Do you also feel that way from time to time? Of course, fortunately what happens most often is that we are overwhelmed with a fantastic memory of the good old days.
Here is a photo from one of the books of that Encyclopedia that I've found online.
When I pass in my mother's, I'll grab some "delicious" photos!
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Cool photos of this mushroom.
Yep time flies... books in our youth were a source of knowledge, but now with the internet, everything is at our fingertips. But I still love books.
Have a great weekend