Tiny Forest Shrooms
by Nick Boren
Title
Tiny Forest Shrooms
Artist
Nick Boren
Medium
Photograph - Nikon Photography
Description
These forest mushrooms that I stubbled upon while hiking, were a very small variety. I found them on the side of an old tree stump. I was glad I had my macro lens with me, so I could get them to fill at least part of my camera frame. It is amazing what you can see when walking through a rain forest.
From Wikipedia:
A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. Toadstool generally denotes one poisonous to humans.[1]
The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap. "Mushroom" also describes a variety of other gilled fungi, with or without stems, therefore the term is used to describe the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface.
Forms deviating from the standard morphology usually have more specific names, such as "bolete", "puffball", "stinkhorn", and "morel", and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called "agarics" in reference to their similarity to Agaricus or their order Agaricales. By extension, the term "mushroom" can also refer to either the entire fungus when in culture, the thallus (called mycelium) of species forming the fruiting bodies called mushrooms, or the species itself.
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February 13th, 2023
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Kathy M Krause
Great macro capture of these little forest mushrooms, Nick! I like looking around for mushrooms and wildflowers when I'm out in a forest of trees, too. Excellent shot! L/F
Laurel Adams
CONGRATULATIONS! Your work has been featured in the Home Page of The ARTIST BUZzz Group! You are cordially invited to POST image embed links for this distinction to the 🌟GAs -Features Archive -2023 thread in the discussion tab. Thank you for your glimpse of beauty!