Mealy Bonnet mushrooms (Mycena cinerella) growing under pine trees.

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Mealy Bonnet mushrooms (Mycena cinerella) growing under pine trees. These mushrooms are the inedible fruiting bodies of this fungus and can reach 5 centimetres in height. They have gills on the undersides of the bell-shaped caps from which reproductive spores drift on the wind. Photographed in Israel in December

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