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Mushrooms of the Day
Russula violeipes
A white to cream-colored mushroom with a bright red splash on the cap, resembling a peach. The Japanese name, Keshouhatsu, means “made-up mushroom” because of the lightly colored cap. When it grows up, it’s shaped like a cup. When it’s young, it really looks like a peach. Although it smells like a beetle, it’s edible. A mushroom of contrasts.
It’s a member of the “Make-Up Club” and came to check out Agnes’s bridal look.
Calostoma japonica
The cap part is a yellowish sphere, with a red star-shaped growth on top. It looks like a takoyaki, a deep-fried octopus ball with a hole in the top, stuffed with red beni shōga pickled ginger. The Japanese name includes the word “lipstick,” and it does look like lipstick! It liked Agnes’s lip color, but wanted to suggest a different shade.
Entoloma virescens
A mushroom with little, sky-blue caps. It’s unknown if it’s poisonous. When damaged, it turns yellow. A fragile mushroom. It took a shine to Ciel’s fur, and decided to join the cat and wait for Agnes together.
Tremella fuciformis
An edible mushroom with layers of thin white membrane. It looks like it’s made of gelatin, but when you dry it out it turns yellowish-white and hard. You can reconstitute it with water though. It’s odorless and tasteless, but quite toothsome, so it fetches a good price. It sprouted in the bouquet with extra gelatin for that special-occasion sheen.
Craterellus cornucopioides
A black, funnel-shaped mushroom, resembling a trumpet. Also known as the “Trumpet of Death,” it’s apparently eaten often in Europe. Goes well in a soup. …So why the scary name, then? It sprouted in high spirits, planning on performing a congratulatory fanfare, but it seems it may have misjudged the timing.
Gomphus fluccosus
A poisonous red mushroom that resembles a trumpet. It causes gastrointestinal poisoning, but doesn’t have any taste…someone must have tried eating this one. When it realized that it makes no sound despite being trumpet-shaped, due to it being a mushroom, it still couldn’t give up. It tried to trumpet anyway. It’s still training.
It felt nervous when it sprouted on the holy book to find all eyes on it, but it ended up in the bouquet and tried its best to make rustling sounds.
Koganetake
A mushroom with a cap covered in golden powder, also known as Kinako Take in Japanese. It’s covered in plenty of powder, like kinako powder. It’s edible, but eating it raw will cause poisoning, so please boil it first. How do the mushroom braves know to do that?
It sprouted on this auspicious occasion to sprinkle some gold dust.
Ganoderma applanatum
Gray or whitish brown cap with age rings like a tree. It grows year by year, and large ones can reach 50 centimeters. It’s durable enough not to fall apart even if you sit on it, so it’s more suitable as a piece of furniture than as a mushroom. A member of the Wood Deterioration Club. If you scratch a message into the back of the cap while it’s growing, it won’t disappear, and if you polish it, it will shine like an ornament. Maybe it really is furniture…
When it heard talk of knocking sense into Philip, it sprouted crying, “I’ll get him right in the mycelium! I’ll knock the spores right outta him!” But sadly, a mushroom can’t do much, and Philip doesn’t have any mycelium or spores anyway.
Cuphophyllus virgineus
Milk-white caps. A small and cute mushroom. It’s easy to eat and goes well in vinegared dishes or in a sauce. It blooms when it senses an innocent young woman and loves to peek at romantic scenes.
“Oh, it’s a surprise love event!’’ it cried, trembling with excitement at the hint of new love.