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A young common frog has crawled up on the bunch honey mushroom (Armillaria mellea) caps to catch flies.

 

It seems that mushrooms are very secretive. Almost the whole year they are not seen at all and then suddenly their fruiting bodies are everywhere. Since the mushroom mycel cannot move very rapidly in the soil then mushrooms too are rather stationary. Their fruiting bodies always appear in the same place, if they appear. That means that if you schedule your trips wisely then you can meet old aqcuaintances too in the mushroom forest. Such a reunion took place today in Paganamaa.

Last year we found a splendid coral tooth mushroom (Hericium coralloides) in the forests there. Now we passed through the same places again  … and there it was, growing on a well known birch trunk. Maybe a little more modest but as stately, even majestic. We have met this rarity at every mushroom week until now. This means that the forests around Rõuge are doing well.

 

Coral tooth mushroom  2012.

 

Coral tooth mushroom 2011.

 

The mushroom excursions take place from Monday until Thursday, beginning at 10:00 in front of the Rõuge Peoples’ Centre. The mushrooom exhibition will  open on Tuesday night at 18:00 in the same place. A detailed schedule is on the home page of the Viitina Loodushariduskeskus:

www.viitinalhk.ee