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Autumn kickoff 2014
Insect season is largely over by now, autumn it is now. In this scene I wanted to capture the size difference between two fungi. In hindsight, I should have done more "gardening" to make the scene cleaner and simpler. Hence the pretty heavy post processing in this case.
In terms of species, this definitely is a Mycena, but the actual species is an educated visual guess.
Mycena galopus, commonly known as the milking bonnet or the milk-drop Mycena, is an inedible species of fungus in the Mycenaceae family of the Agaricales order. It produces small mushrooms that have grayish-brown, bell-shaped, radially-grooved caps up to 2.5 cm (1.0 in) wide. The gills are whitish to gray, widely spaced, and squarely attached to the stem. The slender stems are up to 8 cm (3.1 in) long, and pale gray at the top, becoming almost black at the hairy base.
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