We've had a great deal of rain in East Tennessee, which means plenty of mushrooms in the mountains. While on a hike, my husband and I ran across this interesting configuration of mushrooms, which made us think of a mushroom tree or a mushroom shrub.
2009 has definitely been the year of fascinating fungi -- a regular Mushroomopolis! Additional pictures of the mushrooms, as seen from different angles, are here http://www.thommalyngrindstaff.com/blog/?p=913.
--Thomma Lyn
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