A Bread-like puffball mushroom found in the forest
Today, I went to find mushrooms and slime molds growing around a narrow forest road where decayed wood logs were abandoned. I found a bread -like puffball mushroom on a forest road soon after walking. There are many different types of bread, but in Japan there is a round faintly sweet bread widely sold in a supermarket, and I think it is similar to that. Having said that, probably it's not sold outside of Japan, so it's hard to imagine what it would look like. This is the bread that I'd like to show you. Seeing from above, we can see something like broken pieces of mushroom nibbled by insects. A tiny black dot can be seen on the left mushroom. This is a tiny beetle. He's trying to hide his body in the hole he dug on the surface of mushroom. When I checked later, it was peering out from another hole dug on the mushroom. The holes appear to be connected internally. By the way, this is a young mushroom. This is a mature mushroom. (Below photos were taken 2years ago at n...
