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Friday
Sep092011

Purple Mushrooms

From my walk yesterday afternoon: what I think is an amethyst deceiver mushroom (Laccaria amethystina).  (The 'lump' above it is probably a small birch polypore.) 

The gills look like this:

There were also many small ones like this in the area:

Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-09-08.

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