Pale blue mushrooms

[Gabrielle Dean]

“If bacteria can be pictured as teeming black ants under the microscope, imagine fungi as gossamer spider webs. These organisms form long threads called hyphae that stretch between plant roots. Some form into even larger masses called mycelium that can span an entire backyard.”

― Amy Stewart, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

Yesterday’s pew sheet had the first image on the front, but didn’t show how tiny they are. Hopefully the images below will give some scale. They are Mycena interrupta and grow in wet conditions, on logs amongst what I think is a type of sphagnum moss.