Mushroom Monday - WHAT I FOUND ON THIS COLD DECEMBER MORNING

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After a bit of driving, forty kilometers or so, I arrived at the forest where the following photographs were taken.

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This is the small Marasmius siccus mushroom, seen through a macro lens. I found it among the fallen leaves ...

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... scattered around the trunk of the tree, covered with moss ...

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... and lichens. I can't tell you the exact species of the moss, but the lichen is Flavoparmelia caperata, commonly known as the Common green shield lichen. Like all lichens, this is a composite organism. The Flavoparmelia caperata is formed by cyanobacteria living among fungal filaments. This is some kind of colony made of bacteria and fungi living in a mutualistic relationship.

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Marasmius siccus are small mushrooms that grow on rotting wood and leaf litter in deciduous forests.

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The fruiting bodies shown in this post were attached to the leaf fallen from the oak tree.

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Today I found only two Marasmius siccus, but they usually appear in larger groups.

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Macrolepiota procera it's a much bigger mushroom. One of the biggest in this area.

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Today I found only a couple of relatively small, not completely developed fruiting bodies.

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This species is commonly known as the Parasol mushroom.

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After some more walking along the country lane that leads through the woods and passes by a series of farms and villages ...

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... I came across this Mycena pura mushroom.

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On my way back to the car ...

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... I photographed this still green and partially transparent leaf ...

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... and this small, brown mushroom that I wasn't able to identify.

And that's all. As always in these posts on HIVE, the photographs are my work - THE END.