Are there mushrooms in the September forest?
Are there mushrooms in the September forest? spitting day. I haven't been in the forest for a month and a half. I tried not to think about him, and not even look in his direction. And the 30-degree "warmth" did not have at all: the forest is not a beach, in the heat there is torture. In addition, the outright drought made it impossible to see at least something mushroom there. And then - still the whole autumn ahead.
Was ahead. But now September is coming to an end. And the rains began. When, if not now.
Here another classmate provoked: he got out last Sunday into the forest and found ... as much as a whole boletus! I have not seen a single live boletus all summer. And he has some (photo attached)!
All! Today! I! For your boletus!
Contrary to all the laws of the genre - immediately about the result and the final: my personal record (anti-record?) - an absolutely empty basket when leaving the forest.
I have been going to this forest for the eighth year already and have got used to the idea that there are always mushrooms in it, those / others, more / less - but always interesting, always full, always with a basket not empty. And here is such a surprise.
Well, now about the details / beauty.
The only calm non-rainy day of the week. The most beautiful weather for the end of September. The air is so... Only after it it is already worth throwing everything - and into the forest.
September forest, optimistic and sad. Golden autumn has not yet come: there are almost no autumn-colored trees - the leaves fall not so much yellowed as dried. The effects of recent rains/downpours are almost invisible - everything still craves moisture.
No flowers, no singing birds, no butterflies/dragonflies. No mosquitoes, no midges.
However, the forest is always beautiful, if people do not inherit / do not defile. But there were no people, and there were almost none - there was nothing to collect all summer, and now, it turned out, in the fall.
This forest is familiar to me. But I don't know. September! No cartoon fly agarics, no violins, no waves - as bright as they are common at this time. None of this woody thin-leggedness. No round dances of talkers, rows, cobwebs. I don't usually collect these, but it's strange not to see them. Generally.
You begin to look closely at what you can still notice in the forest. Yeah, here's the horn as if nothing had happened - at least someone you know met. Even if it's the only one.
After a recent downpour, a colony of some kind of poisonous honey agaric, most likely brick red, is breaking through here. An abomination of course - but at least some mushrooms still live in the forest, move.
Another poisonous reptile is a false raincoat. And so dense and appetizing. I didn’t notice them before, but it turns out, that’s what they are - tenacious / surviving, they also came across in early August, and continue to grow. Do not participate in the mushroom strike.
The only more or less edible mushroom today is spit. Outwardly - toadstool of toadstools. But occasionally comes across. Previously, I did not notice him at all, but here - in the absence of fish - I asked, read. An interesting genus of mushrooms. And poorly studied. Even the number of species has not been determined. But, apparently, in our area there are at least a dozen of them. I came across, most likely, deer. It is quite large and edible. I'm in the forest, sorry, not because of hunger. I definitely won’t put this in a basket - but I’ll wind it around my mustache: you never know.
Plyutei, like poisonous mushrooms, grow on decaying wood and, obviously, are less dependent on the drying of the soil.
And what about MY boletus? It did show up. Only it was necessary to come for him a couple of weeks earlier - then he got out and was just waiting for someone. And right in the middle of the lane. I did not wait - people do not go here. Is it really the only and last in the forest?
The kingdom of mushrooms (this is not a literary image: taxonomically, mushrooms are the same kingdom as plants and animals) - mysterious, obscure. Science has yet to study and study it. I know them, mushrooms, very poorly and practically do not understand.
Something is going on with them. Not the first year, but this season - especially. This is how you imagine these amazing networks of mycelial mycelium sprawling in the soil. Seeking, waiting, patient. But these microscopically thin living threads cannot not only grow, but even remain alive in unsuitable conditions for an infinitely long time. Where can they accumulate growth potential and give out their fruiting bodies, which we rejoice at and which we love to collect.
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