Parasol mushroom, of sorts: 13 November 2018
Of all the photos I’ve taken of fungi this season, I rate this as the best. Shame I can’t identify it with absolute certainty. It’s a parasol, that’s all I will say.
Why is it ‘perfection’? Cos it’s not yet nibbled by bird, insert nor squirrel, and no tree has dropped debris upon it, and the rain hasn’t spoiled it. I’m guessing it’s newly risen that day.
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It is an inspiring post! You have an awesome site. I hope you will visit my travel blog: https://my-anasa.com/
Thank you!
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I visited. I enjoyed the journey. I thank you. 🙂
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Many thanks, I am glad to read it 🙂
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How about because the photographer also framed it perfectly?
Lovely!
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I thank you, Dale. 🙂
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I’d forgotten about how fragile these little fungi are. I imagine you mostly find ones that are past their prime or have been damaged by, as you say, being eaten or having things dropped upon them. What wonderful serendipity to find a big parasol like this in such perfect condition! And I agree with Dale: you did a great job with the photography, too. Nice catch!
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I thank you, Joy. You should see some of the photos that don’t make it to here! 🙂
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Nice!
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Thank you.
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I had to come back to your last “mushroom post” to share with you a video I saw on Facebook not ten minutes ago… Thought of you, immediately!
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Oh wow, aren’t they fantastic. I thank you trillions. I’ve saved it into the Watch Later thingy to show my daughter (fellow fungi nut) when she’s round at Christmas.
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I am so very glad you enjoyed. I swear, as I was watching this, I said to myself, there better be a link outside of Facebook so I can share it with my fungi buddy!!
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What would we do without YouTube, hey?
And I chuckle: your fungi buddy? Hmm. I shall probably post more next weekend, despite no country walks for the next two weeks. (have to play Father Christmas, Ah, well, that’ll be Fly Agaric :))
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I know, right? It has become another sort of dictionary!
Do chuckle away. I know you are more than fungi 😉
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I shall play that video with my morning coffee. Every day. Should jump the day off well. 🙂
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It should indeed. The colours are mind-blowing and wow to the ones with the “frilly skirts”… 🙂
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Stink Horns. But I’ve never seen them wearing net tu-tus! Yet that net-like structure is visible in the shaft.
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So very cool, nature is.
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What blows my mind is that all of life on this planet is, in some way, dependant upon the fungi family; that plant life would not have evolved without it, so I suppose, arguably, would animal life. Fungi, in some form or another, is riddled through every living being. Now that is wow-worthy.
Found that in a documentary on YouTube too.
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That is probably true… and fungi of the nasty sort was all over my mother-in-law’s cupboards when I emptied her apartment… not so pretty, I assure you.
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yea, that sort can always be found. Not so welcome. But I still struglle to identify even the most common fungi. In fact, the more common, the less able.
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So effing gross. I thought it was an accumulation of dust and cobwebs but no… definitely a fluffy sort of fungi growth. Blech.
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I’m still hunting down slime-mould. Which I used to think was Sly Mould. 🙂
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Call it whatever you like. I’ll stick to my most scientific “fluffy grey grossness”
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Actually, I like fluffy grey grossness.
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Has a certain je ne sais quoi to it, no? 😉
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Descriptive, without being purple.
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