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| Porcelain fungus - Oudemansiella mucida |
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Showing posts with label oudemansiella. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oudemansiella. Show all posts
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Monday, 29 June 2015
Southern Porcelain Fungus
Monday Mushroom #71
A beautiful, white mushroom photographed in New Zealand - reminiscent of the European species Oudemansiella mucida.
A beautiful, white mushroom photographed in New Zealand - reminiscent of the European species Oudemansiella mucida.
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| Oudemansiella australis surrounded by Auricularia cornea fruiting bodies. Everything below it has been dusted with white spores. |
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| Oudemansiella australis |
Whiteness and translucency are its defining features.
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| Oudemansiella australis |
Labels:
Auricularia,
fungi,
mushroom,
new zealand,
oudemansiella,
photography,
Waitakere Ranges
Monday, 7 March 2011
Back-lit Porcelain
Monday Mushroom #9
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| Porcelain Fungus - Oudemansiella mucida |
Taken into the sun, one-handed, while hanging from a branch 3m up a beech tree. Porcelain fungi are beautifully translucent, glistening, pure white mushrooms. Something that this photo fails to show.
Below is a less dramatically lit shot of the same species:
Labels:
argyll,
beech,
cowal,
fungi,
mucida,
mushrooms,
oudemansiella,
photography,
porcelain,
sunlight
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