Mushrooms like ripe flowers

Although it looks like the fungus grows in the ground, it is actually an arboreal fungus. It grows on rotting, dead wood, often buried in the ground.

Indeed, this creature looks more like spring flowers than mushrooms, but it is a mushroom nonetheless.

Initially, the young mushroom looks like a small pink ball with a hole at the top. With age, the mushroom opens, its edges crack, so symmetrically that it begins to resemble the cup of a fully developed flower.

This beautiful calyx, resembling a flower in bloom, is not very large. It can reach a diameter of up to 20-25 mm.

The inside of the mushroom has a bright, fiery red color, while the curled edges are much brighter.

The outer side of the calyx of this mushroom is pale, covered with fine hairs.

Stem widens upwards and may branch. The mushroom is considered inedible. It is quite rare and appears in early spring, already in February in mainly deciduous forests, often in large groups.

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