Hunting for elves in spring (forest walk of 19 photos)

Have you ever hunted elves? This is a difficult task, especially in the season when fly agarics do not yet grow. Agarik red is like a thermal imager for night hunting. It is worth eating a few hats and you will find not only elves in the forest. But I only wanted elves.

I wandered along the forest paths for about 8 hours, since the day was sunny and warm. Apparently I stomped my feet too loudly. I even heard how the elves scattered through the bushes and scattered in different directions. In their haste, they even tossed their trademark bowls.

Sarcoscypha Austrian, or "scarlet elf bowl" (lat. Sarcoscypha austriaca) is a species of marsupial mushrooms of the genus Sarcoscypha. A little-known edible mushroom of low quality. The flesh is cartilaginous and slightly harsh in taste. Before cooking, mushrooms must be boiled in salted water.

I don't know who writes these Wikipedia articles...it's a normal spring mushroom and even delicious if cooked right. In addition, it has a number of beneficial medicinal properties from stopping bleeding to lung problems. True, there are some contraindications.

The mushroom is rare, if I saw it before, I did not pay attention and it grows with us in early spring, when it is still cool. And at this time I rarely go to the forest. This time I just got lucky.

If you look closely, behind the old birch dotted with tinder fungi you will see the remains of snow. There are few snow islands, but they do exist. I'll show you another one at the end of the post.

And these are also mushrooms - tinder fungi on the trunk of an old fallen birch. There were quite a few of them.

In general, this place is deaf, a small depression in the middle of the forest overgrown with mosses and lichens.

But here, too, I found mushrooms. They are small and I did not immediately notice them. But it turned out that there were quite a few of them. I assume they are edible, but I don't take unfamiliar mushrooms. So I just arranged a mushroom photo shoot.