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Discovering fungus in our environment

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Another day, another blog. I'm here to write about my discovery of different mushrooms.

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The weather is always changing; it will suddenly rain, and then later it will warm up again. Sometimes I was too lazy to go out because my slippers were getting muddy lol. But today I walked around our neighbourhood to look for mushrooms; our surroundings full of bamboo.

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This orange mushroom on an old bamboo tree covered in carabao grass was the first thing I noticed. This orange mushroom's vivid color truly caught me off guard. I had never seen it before.

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Another mushroom I saw was orange-colored with brown mixed with burnt bamboo trees; actually, there are many growing, and the colors are different in the next picture below.

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Another mushroom that is that brown colour. I don't know if it's orange that faded and just turned brown, but I think it's not. What do you think?

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Another purple-colored mushroom that astounded me again because of it's color, haha. Look at this; I think it's cute, too bad it's not edible. But when I touched it, it felt hard.

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I discovered another small oyster mushroom on the bamboo root covered in green moss. And I believe this is edible because this is what my father picks and cooks. so, I hope they grow more so that I can pick and cook as well. Hehe.

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The white mushroom is known as Schizophyllum commune. I saw it and old bamboo again, but it's a different place. Based on my search, this fungus is edible and actually grows on old wood.

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After walking around,I returned home because my husband had called me because my son was hungry. haha, lol. Then I took a bath in my sisters-in-law' s water well pump our house, but while I was bathing, I noticed another fungus and a different colour growing on the bamboo that they use to wash clothes. That was ear wood; I'm not sure if this is edible.

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On the other side, there are tiny black fungi. They look exactly like the typical small white fungi I see, but this one is different because it is black.

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I had a great time looking for fungi today and discovered a variety of colours. Small and large fungi grow on bamboo trees, and I had no idea that some of them are edible but not cooked, and others are used in medicine in ways I don't understand. That's just around us; I haven't been to the ones that aren't frequently visited here in the forest.

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I'll see you in my next blog, and thank you for reading my post. Peace and love!