At noon today in the park I came across what I thought at first were flowers in the grass. Was this, I wondered, an out-of-season growth of wild violets?
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On closer inspection it turned out to be a spontaneous eruption of mushrooms, of a color I had never seen before.
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Unfortunately all the specimens in this small group had suffered damage prior to my arrival on the scene. I found no others anywhere in the field.
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I did not know purple mushrooms were so common. Some Google images can be found, here.
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