Thursday, September 21, 2023

Pleated Inkcap

Petite and delicate, this Pleated Ink Cap looks as if it's trying to be an Aster. They appear overnight after rain and disintegrate rapidly. Before the pleats split open, they resemble cocktail umbrellas - they're called Parasola plicatilis.


2 comments:

Lucy Schultz said...

Is it a flower or a fungus? It's so pretty!

Debbie said...

In incredibly pretty fungus