Photography of the last week of November, 2012

Life and death of some mushrooms

Small glass mushroom - © Norbert Pousseur

... mushroom such of the delicate glass ready to break ...

Previous series : Dragonflies

Following series : Autumn weather

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The mushrooms which spread out under our eyes in forests or the meadows are often a show of life and death.
Life of their colors which goes from the black to the lively red, by way of the blue and the green, but also fast disappearance which makes that a few days later remain only the grass and the moss.

Thus, at the end of season aurtomne the mushroom called hairy inky cap (Coprinus comatus) points his head as soon as moisture is sufficient, and returns to earth in black puddle in 2 or 3 days ago.

In the same period we can meet at the corner of Provence trails that other weird fungus that is probably related to the family of puffball.

However while puffballs are quickly transformed there a kind of pear throwing(launching) the black powder of its spores, leaving only a kind of mat grey egg in skin, having been a beautiful white ball, here we have a body structured by wrinkled flesh. If somebody the year knows the name, thank you for indicating it to me !

Small show of life translates in these few views below.

You will find, in the French version of this page, two articles resulting from former dictionaries.
One of the 1689 and other one of the 1839