October Fungi portraits (13 photo)

Hola, setero! I want to share today some Fungi portraits from my recent trip to October forest. We had to visit our summer place for doing some hornets business, and also went to the swamp to replenish the sphagnum moss stock. Of course it was impossible not to dive into the forest, although my free time was restricted, I looked for mushrooms to shoot. And the most offensive thing was that I forgot to borrow a spare CF card! shame on me ... the forest was full of autumn beauties, but I was able to take only a few dozen photos. At the certain moment my camera said: we're not going any further, the card is 100% full. That was like a cold shower to me, haha - but saved me some time...

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Fortunately, by that moment I had already managed to take plenty of photos from all angles of this nice couple of fly agarics that I came across; they are the most beautiful mushrooms in our forest, at least in my opinion - does somebody willing to argue with this?..

A pair of fancy Amanitas I found in the November forest.

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With the inevitability of June rain, what grows through the dead leaves to recycle organic matter and return it to the cycle of life? Weak, pale, ephemera fungi, of course.

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Coprinus comatus, aka 'layer's whig' - very fancy and well-spread mushroom of Europe, that you cannot pass by without taking a pause to admire it. November is too late, but you may see them still popping up here and there, just not in big families like in September-October.

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This specie stayed as 'UFO' for me (unidentified Fungi Object), doesnt look too fancy and spectacular itself, but look at the whole colony... the family looks amazing!

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Two nice fellows popped up on a stump - big hats charming fashionable caps fedoras!

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And this awesome fungus appeared right at my doors (well, almost) - just few steps away from my summer house entrance. We keep all the rotten stumps at our place, that is not only a pleasurable sight for the eyes, but also a resting / feeding spot for birdies, and a landing spot for shrooms as well. 😎

This baby was tiny, but pretty cool, and very tight. My guess: it might experience some distortion in the process of its development, as you see there is a disproportion in comparison with the probable 'normal' appearance of such a mushroom. Its stem became shaped too short and thick, with the width comparable to its cap - as a result, the mushroom looks very strange, unusual, but attractive. Strangely, its shape gave me associations with an organ, I don’t know really why...

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