so beautiful and nice pictures I didn’t know this but mushrooms are a part of the fungi kingdom – not plant kingdom. I don’t know how to classify or identify them but I know fungi are really important to the ecoprocesses of the land. There are many types of fungi with the most common that I recognise being mushrooms, puffballs, bracket fungus or other fungal fruiting body .One thing I need to remember when I see one of these “fruits” is that I am only seeing the spore-producing part of the fungus. That there is a large amount of the fungus underground, out of sight, not visible to the naked human eye in the soil or wood or dung or whatever the fungus is growing from. (And I also need to rememeber that fungi is the plural of fungus – for some reason my head doesn’t seem to be able to retain this small spelling difference and associated meaning!! this is the best post for fungi lovers thanks again for sharing