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Blue...Velvet (56)
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Species: Pulcherricium caeruleum
Common Name: Cobalt Crust
Phylum: Basidiomycota > Class: Basidiomycetes > Order: Polyporales > Family: Corticiaceae
Synonyms: Auricularia phosphorea, Byssus caerulea, Byssus phosphorea, Corticium caeruleum, Mycinema phosphoreum, Terana caerulea, Thelephora caerulea
I consider Pulcherricium caeruleum to be the most beautiful of the corticioid fungi. Pulcherricium means "most beautiful" and caeruleum means blue. Pictures do not really do it justice at all. In real life it looks like someone coated a stick with blue velvet.
The color shown here is pretty close to its natural color. I had in my side that I could place the branch in a confortable place. I always compare the colour of the fungi with the one seen in my display, as I like to have it natural, also when postprocessing I keep a window open with the original one. This was a pain. Slight variation of the parameters or POV changed the tones drastically.
I want to repost here also, a comment I made to Willie, as I saw some mistakes in comments about mushrooms. Remember fungi are not plants !
"As far as I know, fungi does not need light at all to succeed. The main factors are temperature and humidity (appart from nutrients) . Both of them are more regular inside a cave. In fact cheeses like roquefort blue fungus is cultivated keeping the cheeses in caves. Also most industrial fungi grow in the complete darkness, there is only light in the manipulation and mantainance process. That is why is so different a common Agaricus or Pleorotus bought in a supermarket compared to a natural one, light creates a harder skin and changes the colour. "
Hope you like!
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