Category: Fungi

Norwegian November

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Winter can be a beautiful time with frosted leaves and and a drizzle of light snow over the green moss. But often it is heavy rain and constant lack of color. The sunrise is late in the morning and the sunset is early in the afternoon. But sometimes the sun shines and the trees covered with frost sparkles in the sunshine.

If you walk slowly and take time to notice your surroundings you will find colors or beautiful details like in the photos below. The little mushroom surprised by the first snow and a frosty night. A forgotten red apple outside an abandoned house and the ice crystals on the dry, brown fern leaves.

The first snow

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It is late November and the other day the first snow started floating in the cold air. Quiet it fell to the ground like someone was sprinkling icing sugar over the landscape. The grainy, tiny snowflakes covered the dead, brown plants and brought back the shape of the leaves. Mushrooms was decorated with a layer of white ice crystals. The first hint of winter has arrived and soon the whole landscape will turn completely white.

Winter fungus

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In Norway the mushroom season mainly last from July to October. But there are mushrooms to be found during winter too. Now, in January you can find edible mushrooms in the forest. Flammulina velutipes, winter fungus, grows on dead trees and looks quite beautiful growing together with green moss. Some trees are fully covered with this mushroom. It is fantastic to see that a dead tree can give new life to edible mushrooms year after year.
Winter fungus topped with snow

Winter – not yet

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It is November and still the winter hasn’t arrived here in Norway. In this time of the year we use to have temperatures below zero and it is time for snow. But we still have a rather warm autumn and in the forest there still grows mushrooms.

On Friday when I went for a walk it was 13 C and the sun was shining. It was a wonderful day. I went to a view point in mye neighborhood, the first photo. The mushroom on the second photo is beautiful even though it is getting old and fading very soon. I am not sure what type it is and if it is edible, but it could be Hygrophorus hypothejus also known as “herald of the winter”.

Mushrooms in October

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After some days with heavy rain I went out for a walk nearby our house. I hoped to find some mushrooms to shoot. It was a quite short walk as the paths around here was muddy and very wet, some of them turn into creeks after the rainfall.

Well, I was lucky and found some mushrooms. I love to shoot mushrooms and this autumn they have been difficult to find. I was lucky to find some on my little walk, but they probably are the last ones this season. This week we actually had one day with snow, so winter awaits just around the corner.

Autumn in the forest

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I love summer but autumn has a special place in my heart. Autumn is the most beautiful season with vivid colors and the crispy air on a sunny September day. The forest is loaded with mushrooms and berries and the green moss ground in the forest are sprinkled with leaves in all the shades of yellow and orange.

Little mushrooms

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This summer the forest is back to normal compared to last years dry summer where there were almost no flowers and no good looking mushrooms for photography. Now the forest is full of mushrooms both edible and mushrooms which is worth a shot. Last Sunday I went for a forest walk, well, the weather was not the best for photography with heavy rain and dark skies but I was determined to find some nice mushrooms for macro photography. Here are the results (these are not edible):