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That is gorgeous!
Wow. Great photo. I’ve never seen anything like this.
Definitely a beauty!
Unbelievable! So perfect.
Gorgeous!! Never seen a mushroom this colour before!!
Gorgeous portrait!
Wow..as someone who is experimenting with macro this is amazing….Michelle
Thanks so much for your comments folks – it was a delight to find these small mushrooms (there was two separate groups of them). I didn’t have a tripod so ended up lying on my stomach and bracing the camera on the ground in order to get the photograph and I think that the perspective really works for this image. Sometimes it pays to get a little wet!
Hi, I wonder if the mushroom we found some months ago in Central Panama belongs to this species. I posted it at the end of this entry: http://janbirdingblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-than-birds.html at my blog. My wife loves mushrooms, but we don’t have any field guide. Nice blog.
Hi Jan, I have to admit that I have no idea if this is the same mushroom but logically I think that it must be something different given the Douglas Fir habitat association of Hygrophorus miniatus. It probably isn’t even the same genus but as I’m not a mushroom expert by any stretch of the imagination I’m not sure where one would begin with tropical mushrooms (I couldn’t even find a range map for this species on-line).
That being said – I did enjoy visiting your blog and reading about your birding expeditions. If/when we plan a trip to CA it would be fun to do some birding with you! I’ve traveled and birded in Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Mexico’s Yucatan and have always wanted to head a little further south.
Cheers,
Dave