Most people consider mushrooms to be the small, ugly cousins of the plant kingdom, but theirs is a surprisingly beautiful and wonderful world waiting to be explored. These beautiful mushrooms, captured by enthusiastic nature photographers, are a far cry from the ones you find in the woods or your local grocery store.
Most mushrooms, as we know them, are actually just the reproductive structure of the fungus they belong to – their fungal networks expand far further underground, and some fungi don’t even sprout the sort of mushrooms that we’re used to seeing. In fact, depending on your definition of “organism,” the largest living organism in the world is a fungus – there’s a honey mushroom colony in Oregon that occupies about 2,000 acres of land!
1. Puffballs
2. Mycena Chlorophos
3. Marasmius Haematocephalus
4. Rhodotus Palmatus
5. Phallus Indusiatus
6. Schizophyllum Commune
7. Amethyst Deceiver
8. Panus Fasciatus
9. Clathrus Ruber
10. Porcelain Fungus
11. Cup Fungus
12. Lepiota
13. Leratiomyces
14. Hydnellum Peckii
15. Favolaschia Calocera
16. Cyathus Striatus
17. Coprinus Comatus
18. Mushrooms With A Snail
19. Geastrum Minimum
20. Aseroe Rubra
21. Morchella Esculenta
22. Puffball Mushroom
23. Crepidotus
24. Tiny Golden Mushrooms
25. Chorioactis
26. Hairy Mycena
27. Amanita Muscaria
28. Cup Fungi
29. Laccaria Amethystina
30. Illuminated Mushroom
31. Tiny Orange Mushrooms
32. Entoloma Hochstetteri
33. Lactarius Indigo
34. Mycena Viscidocruenta
35. Cyptotrama Aspratum
36. Black Fungus
37. Panaleous Sphinctrinus
38. Toothed Mushroom
39. Clavaria Zollingeri
40. Parasola Miser
41. Oudemansiella Mucida
42. ZestradarChlorociboria
43. Illuminati
44. Entoloma Hochstetteri
45. Clathrus Archeri
46. Coprinus Cordisporus
47. Stemonitis Axifera
48. Xylaria Hypoxylon
49. Octopus Stinkhorn (Devils Fingers)
50. Clavaria Zollingeri
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