Lauren Collier

Thank you! Having a social media break was very freeing though! 😊

Officially March, which means fresh spring greens are starting to pop up and the winter fungi begin to fade.🍄‍🟫

Wild garlic/ramsons (Allium ursinum) and some scarlet elf-cups (Sarcoscypha coccinea)

#fungi #fungifriends #mushroom #mushroomsky #garlic #foraging #wildfood

Me too, I moved away from them all 🤣

Shaggy ink cap (Coprinus comatus)

The ones in this photo are beyond eating, but when found at an earlier stage they can be cooked and eaten.

Still pretty good for making ink though!

#fungi #fungifriends #mushroom #mushroomsky #nature

Amethyst deceivers (Laccaria amethystina)

Really beautiful mushrooms and edible too.🍄‍🟫

#fungi #fungifriends #mushrooms #nature #mushroomsky

Amanita muscaria at night.🍄

#fungifriends #fungifriday #mushroomsky #toadstool

The woolly milkcap (Lactarius torminosus)

A different type of milkcap than the previous one I posted, but this one was far too pretty to chop up with my mushroom knife.🍄

Named ‘woolly’ because of the fabric-like strands around the cap

#fungifriends #mushroom #mushroomsky #fungi #forest #nature

Also Belle, the cuddliest jack russell on the planet and best foraging companion.🐶

She’s almost 6 and has been with me since she was a puppy. Very smart but loves to bark.

#dog #dogsky #jackrussell #mydog

When you still aren’t sure about other humans so you hide behind your safe humans legs 🐕

This is Dragon, my little rescue pup who’d already had four homes at three months old. He’s been with me for four months now and will stay forever🥰

#dog #dogsky #rescue #puppy

Mushrooms are the ones that terrify everyone but the plants are actually wayyyyy more dangerous

Yep, that’s the yellow one in the photos, they all have pretty weird common names like the white one is also called ‘moon poo’😂 and the pinkish orange one is called wolf’s milk

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Growing my own food is the one thing I miss since being nomadic 🙃

Slime molds! I know less about these than I do about #fungi, but they truly are fascinating; especially with their ability to solve mazes.

1. Lycogala epidendrum
2. Reticularia lycoperdon
3. Fuligo septica

#slimemold #nature #forest #slime

Beautiful find!

Common stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)

Starts life as a creepy egg before rupturing into a phallus shaped mushroom. The sticky (and stinky) goo around the tip attracts flies and other insects, which help with spore dispersal.

#fungifriends #mushroom #mushroomsky #fungi #forest

A yellow gelatinous looking fungus, growing on a moss covered branch

Yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica)

Can be found all year round but it’s much easier to spot during winter.

It’s also parasitic and will be feeding off the little crust fungus you can see below it.

#fungi #fungifriends #fungisky #nature #mushroom #mushroomsky

Popping nature’s pimples, Wolf’s Milk Slime Mold (Lycogala) #pimplepopping #oddlysatisfying #slimemold

Slime molds are seriously fascinating!

In my spare time I like to torture mushrooms from the Lactarius (milk cap) genus.🍄

Jokes aside, Lactarius are a pretty good group to study for beginners.

#fungi #fungifriends #mushrooms #milkcaps #mushroomsky #fungisky

Wood/jelly ears or scientific name is Auricularia auricula-judae

Eyelash fungus/Scutellinia scutellata 😊

This is yellow brain/Tremella mesenterica, some people also call it witches butter but technically that name belongs to a similar-looking, but different coloured, fungus 😊

New to this app and not sure how to use it yet, but here’s me and some penny buns (Boletus edulis) I found back in October.🍄‍🟫

#fungi #mushrooms #forest #nomad #foraging