A special brand of meringue...

[ackhoo]

At long last, I found a new species of mushroom to post! 🍄

I've been sort of (minor) grumbling about always only finding one type of shrooms around here, when lo and behold, sis reported a new specie she saw earlier on her walk that morning...

Alas, she only remembered to tell me late in the evening, and when I went to look at them, it was night, and being in a dark spot, I shot some with my phone camera with flash, but of course it wasn't anything very impressive...

I went back today, armed with my camera and lens (that I'm still testing out)... and this is what I found...

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Found this one which seems to have been knocked over
Either by an insensitive hooman...
or it just fell over, maybe due to the weight of its over-big head (the cap, I mean)!
Which was a good thing - no complaints
This allowed me to get a wonderful view of its gills...
Btw it was sitting pretty ON the road!
No kidding!
A patch of soil that escaped the grassy road shoulder... where grass also grew
And the shrooms followed!
You can see the yellow of the road kerb here

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Front view
The edges look so much like durians.... lol
The thorns of the durian anyway

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Creamy... and soft
Yeah, I touched them!
The gills, and the tops
Kinda foamy
Clouds... 😄

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Okay, I am fascinated with the gills...
Totally impressed/obsessed!
Don't they remind you of meringues?
The ones they torch... lol... errr, brown, I mean!

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Another angle
(to convince the unconvinced)
Seeee...........?!!!
See what I mean...
Meringues!
Torched meringues!!

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And this is the little patch where I found the torched meringue
and that's the yellow of the road bump!
I'm so glad no car rolled over them...

And this happens to be my first post in #FungiLovers,
on @ewkaw's #FungiFriday!
Shroom on, all fungi fans... 🍄

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_{Captured with SONY A5100 + Sony E 50mm f1.8 OSS lens | ©images & text my own | click image for fullscreen view}

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Comments

[ewkaw]

I look at them and I see macaroons :p
Happy Fungifriday!

[ackhoo]

Hahaha... why do we always see food... :p
Happy FungiFriday!

[ewkaw]

Cause food rocks :D :D

[pixresteemer]

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[ackhoo]

Thanks, pix! :)

[beerlover]

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[chitty]

I have picked your post for my daily hive voting initiative, Keep it up and Hive On!!

[ackhoo]

Thank you, @chitty!

[yashoda]

Amazing pictures👌

[ackhoo]

Thank you!

[pradeepdee6]

Very impressive photographs. Looks like they are from other world 😬
Beautiful backdrop for each photo 👌

[ackhoo]

Thank you very much, @pradeepdee6! :)
It truly is a different world once we move in close... much much closer...

[sketch.and.jam]

Cool the gill pattern is pretty unique. That should help distinguish them a bit for identification. The also have characteristics of parasol mushrooms with the skinny stem and ring near the caps. How big was the cap?

[ackhoo]

Yeah, I read that the gills are good for identification... But I'm no shroom expert! :)
The largest cap was about 5 inches across... Would you be able to identify them?

[marjuanm]

Good photos, congratulations 😊

[ackhoo]

Thank you! :)