There Is A Fungus Among Us.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Fauna and Flora - Mushrooms
2021: Peck's Russula (Russula peckii)
2022: Straight-stalked Entoloma (Entoloma strictius)

This thread is amazing (starting with a story of co-existing lives), and I thought I have nothing to add, but found a few... I hope I checked thoroughly.

Shaggy ink cap (or lawyer's wig??) showing the black ink started to appear - doesn't look like "excellent to eat" it is said! After we had our cellar flooded this summer, I found a tiny fungi looks like the left end one on this stamp on the cellar floor. I wasn't brave enough to taste it..

Mongolia
1 January 1964 / Fungi / Coprinus comatus / design: Tsembeldorj

Mushrooms are often illustrated in a misty or daydreaming atmosphere, and in this case they are mysteriously poisonous? I have no knowledge on the "Red Book" of mushrooms, but it sounds alarming.

Black Morel (morchella elata)
Bronze boletus (boletus aereus)

Lithuania
20 September 1997 / Fungi in the Red Book / design: J. Gerdvila



p.s. I was really wrong! The second one is Porcino Nero in Italy and sought-after delicious mushrooms!! Is the Red Book in Lithuania a guide of collecting mushrooms, maybe?

Yes, alarmed!

Estonia
2013 Amanita phalloides / 2017 Paxillus involutus / 2020 Amanita pantherina

Not alarmed. Does that mean you can eat it? I am not sure about the signs on the right hand bottom of the second stamp...

Estonia
2016 Amanita muscaria / 2017 Gyromitra esculenta

Apart from the top one, the rest mushrooms look edible. Then the microscopic images decline my appetite... maybe they suggest a large amount of invisible world hidden beneath? or the word ringworm?

descriptions are;
Peziza aurantia / mildiu (mildew)
Morchella / reprodução sexual (sexual production)
Amanita caesarea / detalhe do himenio (hymenial detail)
Amanita muscaria / reprodução assexual (sexual production)
Amenita fhalloides / situação do himenio (hymenial situation)
Agaricus bisporus / detalhe do himenio (hymenial detail)
Cantharellus cibarius / a tinha (the ringworm)

Guinea Bissau
1988

Both safe and dangerous mushrooms are issued together, and bad ones looks tasty somehow..

top: Common Morel Morchella esculenta / edible
bottom: Satan's bolete Rubroboletus satanas / poisonous

Denmark
16 November 1978 / Mushrooms / design: C. A. Friis, engrave: A. Kühlmann

Many of them have nickname from their looks.

top: Butter mushroom Suillus luteus / because its slippery surface
bottom: Chanterelle Cantharellus / look like toasting cups
both: edible

Norway
20 February 1989 / Fingi / design: Hedvig Östern & O. H. Johannessen

Wide spread in Europe, very edible and possible to dry and freeze. Porcini!!

Sweden
23 August 1996 / Fungi / Cep Boletus edulis

Sweden
20 August 2015 / Mushrooms / design: E. Fries & N. Tamas

Funnel Chanterelle (Craterellus tubaeformis) - edible
Scarlet Waxy Cap (Hygrocybe Punicea) - edible? Vulnerable species
Weeping Milk Cap (Lactarius volemus) - edible
Changle (Ramaria flava) - edible
Cep (Boletus edulis) - very edible, Porcini

Mushrooms, designed by the Belgian artist Jean Van Noten and issued by Rwanda on July 21, 1980:

Geastrum
Lentinus atrobrunneus
Gomphus stereoides
Cantharellus cibarius
Stilbothamnium dybowskii
Xeromphalina tenuipes
Podoscypha elegans
Mycena

Tunisia
Mushrooms of Tunisia
May 11, 2023
The stamp set depicts Lactarius edulis, Amanita caesarea, Boletus edulis, Cantharellus cibarius.

Belarus
Poisonous Mushrooms
June 1, 2022
The stamp set depicts European destroying angel (Amanita virosa), Death cap (Amanita phalloides), Panther cap (Amanita pantherina), Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria).

Czech Republic
Poisonous mushrooms
April 22, 2020
The stamp set features Satan's bolete (Rubroboletus satanas) and Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria).

Moldova
Non-edible Mushrooms
March 27, 2010
The stamp set features Lactarius piperatus, Amanita pantherina, Russula sanguinea, Coprinus picaceus.