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I absolutely love finding and photographing the most tiny of mushrooms, I use my iPhone and a macro lens attachment called an Olloclip. It is hard to convey how tiny some of the mushrooms I photograph are, so here is a rough scale on my hand in centimeters for reference. I have labeled an estimate of each mushroom’s size below its photo.

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Cap 1.5 cm across

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Cap is 0.25 cm, the stem is the same thickness as a horse hair.

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Mushrooms are both less than 1cm in length, caps are 0.25 cm. They are growing from an older dead mushroom.

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Cap is 1.5 cm across, the section pictured is approximately 0.75 cm wide.

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This mushroom stands 0.75cm tallIMG_4885

Mushroom height is 1cmIMG_0045

Cap is 0.5 cm across, mushroom is 1.5cm in total height.

 

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The of this Bird’s Nest Fungi is 0.5 cm. across. Each peridiole (small circular structure) is less than a quarter cm wide.IMG_4740

The smaller of these mushroom caps are approximately 0.5 cm in width.

Cap is 1 cm across.IMG_6392

The shorter mushroom is approximately 0.75 cm tall. IMG_6263

Cap of mushroom is 1 cm wide, the slug is about half a cm long. 

Entire mushroom stands only 0.25 cm tall, possibly the smallest mushroom I have photographed. FullSizeRender

Each mushroom disc averages 0.25-0.5cm in width. IMG_6780

Mushroom is 1.5 cm across the long way.

IMG_6359Section of stick (with lichen on it) pictured is approximately 1.5 cm long, making the small orange fruiting bodies smaller than 0.25cm each.

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This lichen stands about 1.5cm tall.IMG_4644

Cap is 0.5 cm tall.IMG_4696

Entire mushroom length is 1cm, cap approximately 0.5 cm in height, this proves a proper hat or hairstyle can make you look taller.

Average mushroom cap width, 0.5 cm. IMG_7328

0.75 cm across.IMG_8550

The tallest stands 0.5 cm tall.IMG_6410

The average size of the top of these slime mold structures is about 0.2cmIMG_8409Mushroom cap is 0.5 cm across, imagine how small that makes each of the spines hanging down.

IMG_4166Section pictured is approximately 1 cm wide.

 

 

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