My theme for September is Fungi and the camera I have chosen to use is my my mother's Minolta Dynax SPxi which I have just inherited (so this is a test of the camera as well). Autumn is a good time for fungi - you can find them all year round but mushrooms/toadstools are mostly visible at this time of year.
There are many more fungi apart from the mushrooms/toadstools that most people think of when they hear/see the word fungi and I have tried to include other forms here. Three pictures are of lichens - these are a composite organism consisting of a fungus and an alga living together in harmony (technically, in mutualistic symbiosis) - which are extremely interesting in their own right. I might do a monthly topic on just lichens later in the year.
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| Parmelia sulcata |
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| Cladonia species |
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| Xanthoria parietina |
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| Bracket fungus on a birch tree |
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| Mushroom from the fridge |
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| Underside of a slice of mushroom |
