Photography – Nature: Fungi

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Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle here with you today with my April post in the Nature Photography section on LatinosUSA – English Edition. Today, I am showcasing Fungi.

If you have a Fountains photograph to share in the Buildings & Architecture section, please email me at cheadlerobbie@gmail.com and use the title Photography – Buildings & Architecture. Please also include a short write up about your photograph.

Some sort of mushroom by Robbie Cheadle

I came across this interesting thick and tall creamy coloured fungus that I assume is some sort of mushroom. My iphone didn’t identify this fungus so I’m not sure exactly what it is. I thought it was rather interesting so I took a few pictures of it.

If anyone knows what mushroom this is, please let me know.

Honey Fungus by Derrick Knight

Derrick Knight has a fantastic blog that includes interesting book reviews, photographs, and family anecdotes.

To see more pictures of the honey fungus, please visit Derrick’s post here: https://derrickjknight.com/2025/10/14/honey-fungus/

Chicken of the Woods by Anne from Something Over Tea

Anne is a fellow South African with a lovely blog called Something Over Tea. This is how Anne describes her blog:

In between reading and writing I love watching birds in my garden, sharing my enjoyment of tea, and taking photos of patterns in nature. I enjoy visiting game reserves and enjoy being in the outdoors. I am constantly surprised by the variety of creatures I come across in the garden and by the scribbled notes I find in my old notebooks. This is my space to share all these things.

The picture below is of a fungus called Chicken of the Woods. You can see more pictures and read about this fungus on Anne’s blog here: https://somethingovertea.wordpress.com/2026/03/14/chicken-of-the-woods/

You can find author and poet, Andrew McDowell, on his blog here: https://andrewmcdowellauthor.com/blog/

About Robbie Cheadle

Picture caption: Robbie Cheadle author photograph

South African author, photographer, and artist, Robbie Cheadle, has written and illustrated seventeen children’s books, illustrated a further three children’s books, written and illustrated four poetry books and written and illustrated one celebration of cake and fondant art book with recipes. Her work has also appeared in poetry and short story anthologies.

Robbie also has two novels and a collection of short stories published under the name of Roberta Eaton Cheadle and has horror, paranormal, and fantasy short stories featured in several anthologies under this name.

You can find Robbie Cheadle’s artwork, fondant and cake artwork, and all her books on her website here: https://www.robbiecheadle.co.za/

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48 respuestas a «Photography – Nature: Fungi»

  1. Avatar de Miriam Hurdle

    Welcome back, Robbie! I’m glad you had a great time at France. Your fungus are interesting. My Googel photo identify it as a Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus), also known as a Shaggy Ink Cap. I have many fountain photos. I’ll email them to you tomorrow.

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    1. Avatar de robbiesinspiration

      Thank you, Miriam. I really loved Paris. Thank you for the identification. My phone identifier wasn’t helpful for this mushroom. I look forward to you fountain photographs.

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  2. Avatar de thomasstigwikman

    Some very interesting looking fungi photos. Once we had a giant mushroom growing in our backyard. It was about a meter across and half a meter tall. I thought about calling the newspaper. However, before I could do that or take a photo of it the kids smashed it.

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    1. Avatar de robbiesinspiration

      wow, that is enormous. In the UK, the myth is that brownies live in mushrooms. Your mushroom must have been a Brownie city.

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  3. Avatar de derrickjknight

    Thank you very much for featuring my pictures, Robbie

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    1. Avatar de robbiesinspiration

      Thank you, Derrick. The honey fungus is very pretty.

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  4. Avatar de richardbist

    Great topic, Robbie. One of my hobbies is photographing mushrooms and fungi I find when hiking. Like tiny little ecosystems! 🙂

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    1. Avatar de robbiesinspiration

      I’m pleased you also enjoyed photographing mushrooms and fungus. I find them interesting and also pretty.

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  5. Avatar de Darlene

    These are all intriguing pictures of mushrooms! I find them fascinating.

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    1. Avatar de robbiesinspiration

      Me too, Darlene. There is a lot of European folklore involving mushrooms.

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  6. Avatar de brazannemuse

    Fungi, so fascinating … 💞

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    1. Avatar de robbiesinspiration

      I’m pleased you also find fungus interesting, Suzanne 🍄🍄‍🟫

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      1. Avatar de brazannemuse

        I see so many types on my walks, all the shapes and colours and different places they grow, and then my imagination runs wild with the messages they are spreading … some so highly poisonous..! 💞

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      2. Avatar de robbiesinspiration

        Yes, fungi is very interesting.

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  7. Avatar de Ephemeral Encounters

    Wow, so many variations of fungi.
    Thank you for sharing Robbie.

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  8. Avatar de Violet Lentz

    Crispina Kemp is my go-to fungi identifier- but since I don’t have her expertise readily available, I asked AI and it says they are either one of the most deadly mushrooms on earth called an Amaitas- or just a Stinkhorn! Hope that clears it up for you! hehehehehe

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    1. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

      Thank you, Violet. Another reader made another suggestion. That was the issue I had 😂

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  9. Avatar de Meelosmom

    Mushrooms are so alien-looking. They fascinate me.

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    1. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

      Me too, Barbara

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  10. Avatar de Jacqui Murray

    I’ve read more than I wanted to about fungus as I research my early people. Sometimes, it’s edible, or for healing, or starting fires. Clicking through to the link (so I can find out more).

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    1. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

      🍄‍🟫🍄, fungi has a lot of uses and, I think, it’s very pretty

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  11. Avatar de Cindy Georgakas

    I just love these photos.. my fav thing to find on a walk!!!💗

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    1. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

      Mine too, Cindy 🍄‍🟫🍄

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      1. Avatar de Cindy Georgakas

        Nature amazes!

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      2. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

        Yes 🌈

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  12. Avatar de T. W. Dittmer

    These pictures are fascinating to me, Robbie. Information about mushrooms is a lot for my brain to absorb.

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    1. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

      Funghi is very interesting. I think it is quite beautifuk

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  13. Avatar de Author Jan Sikes

    Some great fungi photos, Robbie!

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    1. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

      Yes, I find fungi fascinating.

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  14. Avatar de Tandy (Lavender and Lime)

    I take loads of photos of mushrooms in the wild when we travel. I’m fascinated by where they grow.

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    1. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

      Hi Tandy, I am fascinated by fungus too. I also have a lot of photographs of it.

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  15. Avatar de Toni Pike

    These are all fantastic photos

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    1. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

      I’m pleased you like them, Toni

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  16. Avatar de Tina Opines

    Gorgeous photography!

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    1. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

      Thank you, Tima

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  17. Avatar de Kay Castaneda

    The fungi is so interesting. I’ve never seen any of the ones in these photos before. I lived in Indiana where morel mushrooms are guarded from thieves! They grow wild in the woods. People won’t tell where they grow because they can be sold for a high price. Restaurants buy them from harvesters. Those stories about mushroom hunters getting shot if they try to steal from someone’s place are true. The morels are delicious cooked in butter. April is when they usually appear. I haven’t seen any fungi growing here in Mexico. We live in a dry area.

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    1. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

      Hi Kay, your story about the morel mushrooms is interesting. I didn’t know that. Fungi does like moisture.

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  18. Avatar de acflory

    I love the shapes of all these fungi but…I just assume they’re all poisonous!

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    1. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

      I do too. I’d never eat one but I think they are interesting 😃

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      1. Avatar de acflory

        They are quite beautiful, aren’t they? So sculptural!

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      2. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

        Yes, I also think they are quite beautiful

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      3. Avatar de acflory

        🙂

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  19. Avatar de Jennie

    I enjoyed these!

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    1. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

      I’m glad. I enjoy looking at fungi.

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      1. Avatar de Jennie

        I do, too!

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      2. Avatar de robertawrites235681907

        🍄‍🟫🍄

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