Top 20 Most Common Mushrooms in Ozoir-la-Ferriere

The birch polypore has a variety of applications. Its thick skin has been used by barbers as a razor sharpener and as a mount for insect collectors. When dried, this mushroom was also used to carry fire over long distances because it burns slowly. The historical use of birch polypore doesn't stop there; pieces of this mushroom were found being carried by the five-thousand-year-old mummy Ötzi the Iceman.

The sulphur tuft grows on rotting wood of all types of trees; it is a particularly efficient decomposer of hardwoods. The mushrooms appear from spring to autumn and are often so tightly packed that they interfere with each other’s shape. This poisonous mushroom can cause temporary paralysis, distorted vision, and stomach pain if consumed.

D. canescens is a crustose lichen with lobed margins a growth type known as "placodioid". It grows in rosettes up to 6 cm (2.4 in) across. The thallus which can range in color from white to very pale gray is typically darker in the center and very white-pruinose on the marginal lobes. These lobes are convex becoming wider at the tips – up to 1 mm (0.04 in) wide. The center of the thallus is generally covered with soralia which are flour-like and pale to slightly yellow in color. The photobiont of D. canescens is a green algae (chlorococcoid). Like many lichens D. canescens disperses primarily by means of symbiotic vegetative propagules; most are covered with extensive mats of soralia. Apothecia are rare but where they occur are black lecideine (meaning that they have no thalline margin) and measure 0.3–1 mm (0.01–0.04 in) in diameter. Each ascus contains eight spores. Each spore is brown with a cell wall (called a septum) that divides it into two cells; it measures 10–15 μm (0.0004–0.0006 in) x 5–8 μm (0.0002–0.0003 in). Observations in Ireland found apothecia only between the months of summer and winter. The production of spores increased over that time period with peak germination occurring in fall.

Whitewash lichen is most commonly found growing on trees, especially hardwoods that are in well-lit areas. Its color usually begins a bright green-white that turns to a dull brown-grey. When fresh, it spreads out smoothly over trees as though coating them in white paint.

Lecidella elaeochroma is a crust lichen, which means that its stock (Thallus) lies closely on the surface. The camp is whitish, gray, gray-green, olive or yellowish. Often it is also damaged by snail-eating and then greenish. The structure of the camp is smooth to grainy. Often it is weakly glossy or even limited by a black submission. The camp can sometimes be sorediös dissolved. It reaches diameter of 1 to 3 cm. The apothecia reach between 0.4 and 1.0 mm in diameter. Their discs are black to dark reddish brown and very rarely frosted. The Apotheciens are flat to strongly arched and can be deformed. Its edge is black and smooth. Overall, the appearance of this lichens is very rich in form.

The distinctive jelly ear grows mainly through winter and spring, mostly on the dead trunks and branches of elder trees. It occurs around the world and is often cooked into dishes in Asian countries. This ear-shaped jelly mushroom is often available in stores both fresh and dried.

This clustered, overlapping fungus is found all over the world, and is considered native across both the northern and southern hemispheres. Both its common name, hairy curtain crust, and its scientific name, Stereum hirsutum, aptly describe its most obvious features: it is quite tough (stereum) and the younger fruitbodies are notably hairy (hirsutum).