good capture, I like the slight tilt to this, it make for an interesting and natural shot.

Eine sehr schöne Aufnahme, Christian. Such mal nach Amaniet für die Name, ich glaube das wird passen, oder es ist ein Anis-Pilz ( Agaricus stramineus). Dies kan man essen.

You could be right Jacomina. It could be an "Amanita vaginata". The german word is "Grauer Scheidenstreifling". I would be really interested to know who comes up with such names ;)

Good question, maybe it needs it own genre. :) Lovely closeup

I don't know what genre is proper for mushrooms---I assume "flowers/plants" is the best, since "fungus" isn't a genre lol. (I'd love to see a genre, "fungus".) The use of Latin names for plants goes back to the 1700s. I forgot the name of the scientist who developed the system, but it began back then. Latin was the lingua franca in science, so it was used for plant names; and the Latin names allowed scientists to describe the plant explicitly, so no one would mistake it for another plant. Thus "amanita vaginata" means "sheath-like mushroom". (In English, "vagina" comes from the same root, initially a female "sheath". "Amanita" is actually Greek, but Greek is used in plant names too.)

I guess they called this mushroom "amanita vaginata" (or "Grauer Scheidenstreifling"---which means "gray sheath" in English) because it's gray and it looks like a sheath. (Not the most creative naming in the world!) Anyway, you caught it way down in the grass, and it feels very private and mysterious. Like you caught it in a private moment of contemplation. It's small but beautiful. And lonely too, because there's no other mushroom around it. An intimate capture.