Mushrooms forest

Four days ago i picked up a stick — a small piece of wood, from the ground and when i looked closer at it i saw there were many very small mushrooms; a forest of mushrooms actually.

They are super small, maybe half the size of a grain of rice. It is the first time i've seen one of the ways that mushrooms spread their spoors - the outer cover splits and the hundreds of seeds spill out to be carried away on the wind.

To give a sense of their size, i put a penny beside the wood and took a photo of both the penny and wood:

Yes, that is really how small they are; about the size of the lettering on a penny.

I wanted to see if i could take some photos there were down in the middle of the forest —

I haven't done any cropping, these are all full frame. I think they are tight enough that i can crop tightly around one or two of the mushrooms which would give a good idea of how they are growing attached to the wood.

Currently i am storing the mushrooms in the refrigerator which seems to preserve them well so i can have another go at photographing them tomorrow.