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| A Walk In the Woods - A Look at Fungi |
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| Most of us are familiar with the typical mushroom shape used for our garden ornaments or sketches in children's books and comic strips.
However, with a multitude of colours adorning these un-heralded gems, a vast array of fungi awaits to be discovered in the nature’s collection of wonders. |
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Fetid Tricholoma, Tricholoma zelleri |
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Purple Cortinarius, Cortinarius violaceus |
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Rosy Gomphidius, Gomphidius subroseus |
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The variety of colours is evident everywhere, ranging from the dark purples and blacks to the two-tones of red and white.
Some are even green, hiding among the mosses of the forest floor. |
Parrot Waxy Cap, Hygocybe psittacina |
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The forest visitor will be amazed with the mind-boggling assortment of shapes and colours.
The Coral Mushroom (right) has an almost surreal sea-plant appearance. It is easy to understood how it came to bear this name. |
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Coral Mushroom, Ramaria formosa group |
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Fancy patterns and wooly stems become even more amazing with an array of blending colors that any designer would be pleased to have created. |
Lepiota cristata, (no common name) |
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| There is also a great variation in sizes of fungi from those not much bigger than the pine needles … |
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Red Cap Mushrooms, Mycena adonis |
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Polyporus Hirtus, Jahnoporus hirtus |
…to huge mushrooms that spread out over the forest floor,
dwarfing others trying to make these mossy areas home. |
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