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"sea" of leaf parachutes

Marasmius epiphyllus

Photo by AlexKonig
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Description:

A full field of "leaf parachutes" i would not make it, an own spotting, if it were average for me. I often found them in clusters or slightly spread few inches. But when i noticed this "spotting" i felt as stood/swam i through a "sea" of "leaf parachutes. They were everywhere. Every little white spot at the pictures are "leaf parachutes". (let me know, if you want to count them !!) .

the last picture are marked: everywhere in the RED circle, were it looked like the picture above; the PURPLE is where i found this: ( http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7745290 ); the BLUE had i found a yet still not identified "polypore"; the YELLOW also a polypore,still researching; the WHITE were some sort of Order "Agaricales", very Genus "inocybe" like; at the PINK/ORANGE where a somewhat intressting suspicious "white polypore , with some weird "arms"--- BETWEEN a wall of "mycenas" (will try to upload all mentioned fungis a spottng with link to this one)

Habitat:

Habitat on fallen twigs and leaf petioles. Season autumn. Rare. Distribution, Found In Europe. Not edible

this "spotting" is related to this previous "spotting"--->( http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7784412 ). This is the place where i found them and got surprised from the overwhelming number of fungi-specimen

Notes:

location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter
flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass)
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood, Grows on plant material/manure

Marasmius epiphyllus (Pers. ex Fr.) Fr. syn. Androsaceus epiphyllus (Pers. ex Fr.) Pat. Adern-Schwindling Leaf Parachute. Cap 3–10mm across, flattened, sometimes depressed, white to creamy-white, membranous and radially wrinkled. Stem 15–30 x 1mm, hair-like, whitish near apex, reddish-brown below. Gills white, few, broadly spaced, branched and vein-like. Spore print white. Spores elongate elliptical, 10–11 x 3–4um. Cuticular cells smooth and subglobose

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