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Mushrooms growing on a garden path series

Mushrooms growing on a garden path

Pictures taken over the course of four days showing the developments of a group of mushrooms growing on a garden path.

Mushrooms growing on a garden path

At first the mushrooms had a tan cap, with a paler stem.

Mushrooms growing on a garden path

Later the cap faded to a duller pale brown, exaggerated here by the changing lighting conditions.

Mushrooms growing on a garden path

Notice the holes in the caps where slugs have been nibbling.  Tiny slugs are on the caps in some of the pictures.

Mushrooms growing on a garden path

Small new mushrooms, complete with the stronger cap colour, continued to pop up in the middle of the patch.

Mushrooms growing on a garden path

The path was covered in wood mulch to suppress weeds. It is possible that the mushrooms had been brought in with this mulch.

Mushrooms growing on a garden path

The mushrooms were probably bonnet mycenae, a common fungus,

Mushrooms growing on a garden path

Mushrooms growing on a garden path

Mushrooms growing on a garden path

Mushrooms growing on a garden path