Fragile

We found these small ink cap mushrooms growing almost daily in the compost we bought for our tomato plants. They grew from a tiny sphere on the compost to a mature (though small) mushroom and dissolved into black mush in less than 24 hours. The wafer thin caps, when fully open, measured about 1.5 cm in diameter and disintegrated if they were touched.

 

I pulled this mushroom up by the stalk and placed it upside down on white paper so that the black gills would be clearly visible in the photo.

 

For the Smile on Saturday group theme fungi.

 

Done