Mushrooms in the Netherlands
A mushroom is the fruiting body of many species of fungi (fungi).
Mushrooms form only a small part of the fungus, most of which is in the soil in the form of fungal threads.
In this blog I collect all the mushrooms I have been able to name so far.
Potato Bovist
The fruiting body has a diameter of 5-10 cm and is semi-spherical or tuberous, but often flattened at the top. The surface is rough due to angular scales. The color varies from yellowish to ochre color. If the fruiting body is cut, it turns out to be a thick, whitish skin, the peridium, with often a pink haze. Inside is the purple-black trace mass.
This bovist has no stem or only a short, steel-like base.
The mushroom is poisonous.
Scaly ink agaric
The scaly ink fungus is one of the most common of the hundred types of ink fungus found in the Netherlands.
In youth, the 5-15 cm top hat of the scaly ink fungus is egg to bell-shaped, white with a light brown, smooth center and covered with large, inverted scales. The hat later tears in from the edge and curves to black. The hollow stem is 10-20 cm high with a low, movable, fairly quickly falling off ring. The slats are white in youth, later discoloured from the edge via pink to black.
