Beautiful, soft natural image of the bare ink mushroom with a beautiful bokeh (out-of-focus background) and also, because of the low viewpoint of the camera, an equally out-of-focus foreground.
The large bald squid is a common mushroom that can be found in lawns and grassy roadsides, on wasteland, and other places where the ground has been disturbed. It usually grows in bundles or groups, ostensibly just on the ground, but the mycelium is in reality always connected to wood (buried dead wood, or dead roots of a still-living tree trunk). The fungus lives off the decomposition of dead organic material.
The designation "bald ink mushroom" is derived from the fact that the cap - unlike that of the scaly ink mushroom - does not have any notable, large scales - although a few small, relatively inconspicuous scales may be present near the cap centre. The genus name means "coprinus-like", and Coprinus means "on dung". Incidentally, the latter is not the case with the bald ink mushroom. The species name atramentaria ("inky") is derived from the Latin word atramentum, meaning "ink". It refers to the fact that the cap turns to black ink when the spores mature (3). Coprinus atramentarius is a synonym of Coprinopsis atramentaria.
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