Asterophora lycoperdoides

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Okay, so this mushroom doesn't really possess much in the way of gills. Mostly it sporulates by turning its whole cap into a powdery mass of special thick-walled spores. It grows on members of the genus Russula, reducing them to a black, slimy mass.

 

 

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