We all know mushrooms and moss are like best buddies. Where there is one (moss), there is a high chance to find another (mushroom, the stakler).
I was on my way home when I passed a slightly darker and more humid place in the forest. There were lots of ferns, mosses, and broken branches on the ground. I went to take a look at the few that were the closest to the path, and I found these tiny guys.
Look how the one on the very bottom is bending just to be able to grow up (photo above 👆)
One larger on the same pile of rotten branches, like a boss of the littles. He was blending nicely with the fallen leaves.
Then I found a few larger ones growing from the very bottom of the moss mountain. Some hungry beasts chopped their heads off. I suspect they are very tasty, as I have seen many like this around. In some places, there was only the stem left; not a single hat was left behind.
And then I found a broken tree, or rather, what was left of it. About a 1 meter tall stump was left to rot and was slowly falling apart. The middle of it was all rotten, which means only one thing: a perfect place to store more decomposing leaves and water for the mosses and fungi to grow.
There were a few tiny little ones that looked a bit dried up, though. Being higher and more exposed to the sun doesn't help, does it?
And finally the moss itself. It was the same broken tree as above.
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- when Friday comes (UTC time) post your own, original photo/drawing/art/food/anything-at-all of any type of fungi (yes, I will check and report stolen images or text!)
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Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
All photos, graphics and text are my own.
