FungiFriday - do not kick if you don't pick.

I am still going through the photos from the Polish woods. The fall was perfect for all kinds of fungi last year and they were crowded on the forest floor. Right time, right place and right weather. I just couldn't stop shooting and my card was filling up in a speed of light.

The purple Russulas are one of the more elegant ones. In my eyes anyway. With the deep colour, slightly wavy hat when mature, lovely large white gills and white leg. A true beatu indeed :)
And quite photogenic too, because of the colours contrasting with green moss or brown sticks. Yep... I like a good contrast.

It wasn't hard to spot them among the mainly white and brown ones. Just cannot miss that colour!





A smaller one still pushing through the thick layer of needles an leaves.
It always amazes me how they manage to push though. Here the forest floor is rather soft, but some of the fungi go though layers of heavy soil and through asphalt. Seriously - how do they do it?
And then you just touch them and they break 🤷‍♂





Then I found this one:





No, I did not bite it, and no, I did not kick it.
I found it this way. Either way some animal or a human did it. It is a popular forest for both (especially humans in the mushroom picking season). And as we know some small humans (and big ones too) just have to kick if they don't pick.

Nice blushed leg though. And I would not see it if someone didn't do the dirty job :P





I think this is a Russula too, but much older and slowly drying up already, even though holding some water in the flipped hat.
Do they disolour like that with age?





With all the messed up gills around looking like a delicate lace.





Gills and so much green around.. <3





Bonus blurry artistic shot.
My camera really likes sticks.
A lot!
:)





And of course I had to ask AI about Russula mushrooms and I even got a kicked one. I swears I did not ask for kicked :)

By the way - they added some new styles to pik from and I think they are better. I still haven't tried all of them, just use the few favrourite ones. Cool thing to play around a bit.



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