perry_yu 0 Posted May 21, 2004 Hauling my camera along while playing golf at a seaside course in the late afternoon, I was finally rewarded with interesting photo subjects such as this lone mushroom on the fairway. Mushrooms can emerge from thatch mixed with soil and which has built up over time under the grass. This single mushroom (Smooth Lepiota, Leucoagaricus naucina) must have emerged after a rain from one of the many spores dispersed from the mother colony. With herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, and even fungicides being applied on the grass, there is no room for weed plants like daisies, dandelion, buttercup, clover, nor pests, worms, insects on the course. Only the resilient mushroom can make its occasional emergence. As I took the photo, I almost lied down on the grass and gained a rare perspective - that of the fungus - viewing the fairway at the grass level. Link to comment
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