Short Trip Around the Cobalt Fungus

@qwerrie · 2025-10-17 22:41 · hive-104152

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"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...

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...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.

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

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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.

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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!

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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!

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