Mushrooms, Fungi & Lichens

Veiled lady mushrooms often reach nearly ten inches in height. You can look through the round hole in the cap’s top clear down through the hollow stalk to the ground. The lacy, netted veil or skirt, known as the indusium, may serve as a ladder to help insects crawl up to the cap.

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This pretty little thing was growing from a rotten branch on the ground, and its flesh was fairly tough, the red surface velvety and smooth, the underside, as you can see, a bit rough but without gills (that bit is for mushroom folks).

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