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Many Mushrooms Among Us

By / Photography By | December 20, 2021
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Light shines through the gills on the underside of a mushroom cap.
A common yellow russula makes landfall on the forest floor. Like others, this mushroom prefers a wet environment and will fruit after rainfall.
Poisonous amanita muscaria color the forest landscape. A forager's rule of thumb suggests avoiding mushrooms with white gills and those with red on the cap or stem.
Midsummer rains brought on a bounty of boletus edulis, edible mushrooms known more commonly as boletes or porcini, in the valley.
The buttery gills of a wild mushroom stand out against the otherwise crunchy ground cover in fall.
"The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground." —Rumi

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