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| Common inkcaps. © Eugene Brennan |
Mammy, daddy and their young child. Spotted down my back garden.
Well not really, these are common inkcaps. Mushrooms are the fruiting body of a more extensive sub-surface fungal network, composed of thread-like mycelia which bore into rotted vegetation. Fungi reproduce from spores that drop out of the fin-like gills on the underside of a mushroom's cap.