photo sharing and upload picture albums photo forums search pictures popular photos photography help login
Lou Giroud | all galleries >> ONE YEAR Picture a DAY - 2004 - 2005 >> PAD SEPTEMBER 2004 > Birch-killer - Sept. 28-04
previous | next

Birch-killer - Sept. 28-04

Here a close view of the fruit of the birch killer mushroom.

This mushroom is real plague in Birch Woods. Single Birches or parks are less affected, but once you have this fellow in Birch Wood, all tress will suffer very soon of it and die sooner or later.


other sizes: small medium large auto
share
Manfred Bachmann09-Nov-2004 23:41
Very beautiful!
Lou Giroud29-Sep-2004 05:04
Note that it is not poisonous to people but not edible as well due to it's hard, wood like structure. Also edible mushrooms have a destructive functions as all mushrooms do.
Even those who live in symbiotic community with trees do since they reduce other substances they use for their nutrition they share with the tree.
We eat and drink products every day that mushrooms reduce or transform. In alimentation, moistures are the most common mushrooms and among those the most known are saccaromices cervecii, our baking yeast which is the fermentation yeast of beer, also penicilliums which are penicillins, we use them as antibiotics and the most known and spread is penicillium rocfortii, the blue moisture one finds on bread, fruits and in the Blue Cheeses like Rocfort that gave it his name.
Karen Leaf29-Sep-2004 00:16
Really excellent shot, Lou.
Guest 28-Sep-2004 15:40
Wonderful textures Lou...nicely done.
Guest 28-Sep-2004 14:21
No doubt its poisonous to people too. Lovely photo.
Guest 28-Sep-2004 13:34
Nice shot. And, thanks for the information on mushrooms. I did not know that mushroooms could kill trees. Very interesting.
John Lumb28-Sep-2004 11:13
Nice image Lou. Can this be stopped?
Larry Ahern28-Sep-2004 08:57
Almost more mushroom than tree ... nice shot.
Cliff28-Sep-2004 08:29
nice fungi Lou!
Argishti Khachik28-Sep-2004 07:54
excellent shot.
Yvonne28-Sep-2004 07:52
At least they're easy to see and watch out for. Superb photo. Would Australia have the
same birch-killing fungi?