Photo by Dinnia Joseph
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That is very pretty/ The colours co-ordinate very well.
This mushroom looks like a split kidney. Yes, sweet mango, i`ve eaten mushroom for lunch and dinner in a sang kotch, taste sooo much like codfish sang kotch. It grows on the fallen and rotting cedar trees(powye`), finger licking with a red pepper
but it has to be young, when the edges can be pinched off. We would harvest bags of it at a special phase of the moon. I also had the ones growing on the cow dung (kaka beff) made into a porridge. Very interesting!! These are the only two that i`ve experienced, and that was in the 70`s. 
I was present when Diana photographed this “young” woody mushroom along the Waitukubuli National Trail.
i have not seen any thing like these. Cool but creepy
If them jean gwabay get that lord knows marijuana fini bat.
…judging by your strangulation of the English language you appear to have already partaken of the magic mushrooms and are heavily under the influence!
awesome
the photographer has to be a professional.
Images like that are just so hard to capture. Been trying for years.
Excellent photography. Beautiful subject.
In total agreement
a professional would have centered the picture- take less of the top and more of the bottom so the entire mushroom would appear
I love this. So beautiful! We should think about exporting this is natural mushroom man. really nice
not to be eaten –
Nice one Din-din. It is exceptionally beautiful.
That is remarkable, nature is so inspiring! :-)
“Lingzhi mushrooms enjoy a worldwide reputation, as the ultimate herbal substance. In Chinese, lingzhi means “herb of spiritual potency.”
This looks like the Medicinal Mushroom ‘Ganoderma Lucidum’ or ‘Lingzhi’
Lingzhi mushroom has successfully been used as an herbal medicine for thousands of years and is known as the “Mushroom of Immortality.”
Lingzhi mushrooms are one of the oldest and most effective mushrooms used in traditional Chinese medicine.
They have been effectively used as anti-inflammatories, antivirals, anti-parasitics, anti-fungals, anti-diabetics and anti-hypotensives.They have also been shown to effectively lower blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.”
Check the following website to see how it is prepared –
http://factoidz.com/medicinal-mushroom-ganoderma-lucidum-or-lingzhi/
Don’t judge a book by its cover especially members of the Fungi kingdom…
Renard, thanks for the info. I have various types of fungi growing in my garden at different times, some on old trees and others sprouting directly from the soil. How do you tell, which ones are edible?Is there a publication on fungi in Dominica? I learnt to love them overseas but am frightened to touch them here at home. Am sure others would be interested also.
Let me preface my comment by saying that I don’t eat mushrooms. Not even in restaurants or canned soups.
We never harvested mushrooms in Dominica. The fact that our parents and grandparents never regarded them as food kept us from identifying the edible from the poisonous. If they were a viable source of food in Dominica I am sure that the old folk would have taught us to identify the good from the bad. I would hate to be the first person to determine whether a specific type of the fungus was deadly poisonous – if you get my drift.
In the late 1960’s, if memory is correct, some tourists were spending time in Dominica and became very ill after eating mushrooms they had gathered on one of their field trips.
For those who feel brave enough to eat wild mushrooms please use this important rule “When in doubt… Throw it out!”
I have no information whether there is a publication on mushrooms specific to Dominica. This would be a nice project, and taking pictures is a great start. A fantastic picture Dinnia!
There is a saying in our local Kweyol that tranlates to, “What you don’t know is always older than you”. Ask the folks in the rural areas, and they will tell you that they used to harvest a white fleshy mushroom off the rotten White Cedar (Powye) trees, and make sang-koch with that. There is also a bright orange mushroom that grows on Karapit trees in the rain forest and that too is edible. It was unfortunate that the visitors ate something toxic.
But, there are edible mushrooms growing wild on Dominica, and you just have to know what to consume as food, and what not to interfere with (like the one that grows on kaka-bef)
lovely
Truely magnificient!
cant find words to expess on this pic so lovely.
Beautiful.