Guests celebrating a family birthday took a walk to the right hand waterfall and were delighted to spot a minute and very rare mushroom
Green Wood Cup Fungi Chlorociboria auriginascens. So these little mushrooms have been hunted for 100’s of years. Treasured by the Turkish jewellery box makers for a single reason….
They stain the wood of the host tree the same colour as their pretty pileus.
The tree limbs exhibiting these mushrooms are felled as soon as the mushrooms appear so that the mycelium would not consume the wood to dust over consecutive flushes.
The green/blue wood was used as inlays in the jewelry boxes, and the colour has been retained in some very old examples still to this day.
The hues of the colour green are only found in the rarest of mushrooms. A fantastic find. All praise to God for his awesome creation 🍄
