The rain of the last weeks made the mushrooms flush. This group of mycelium fruting bodies came out of a tree that I believe is alive. Am I wrong to asume that fungal straints fruit only on dead matter?
Portugal was heavily burned by wildfires this summer, as it was stroke by a very strong drought of more than 6 months combined with extremely high temperatures. The seasonal winter runnels in our village and the villages arround are still not carrying water, even though they should do so from mid October to mid November on, as we live in a quite humid micro climate... Everything in nature is still very thirsty, but it feels good to see nature make first use of the fresh water with thousands of mushrooms heads popping out everywhere.