Mushrooms weird me out, and I don’t know much about them, but haven’t seen this one around before. An online mushroom person said it was some sort of Russula. There’s several along the back side of the house, the others were stomped upon during removal of a used billboard. This one just got dirty with some small debris.
While reading about this, it did get pretty interesting, in that I’d totally forgotten that certain mushrooms like to hang around certain types of trees and forests. So this is yet another reason to be able to identify trees, it’ll help one to identify other surrounding life as well.
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