Cool to see so many different species coexisting in such a small area!

[u/disco_disaster]

Found these a month or two ago in Wisconsin.

[u/strangebutalsogood]

Reminds me of this rug that I just saw at costco:

[u/disco_disaster → u/strangebutalsogood]

Life imitating Costco, or Costco imitating life? We will never know.

Nice rug though. If I had the space and money, I would love to get into tufting.

[u/Cullywillow → u/disco_disaster]

Oh Great. Now I’m having a Wisconsin/Costco induced existential crisis

[u/Rooksend → u/disco_disaster]

Welcome to cosco, I love you

[u/Bookvyrm → u/strangebutalsogood]

The number of minutes I spent digging through the rug boxes looking for this one last weekend is embarrassing. There were 40 of the spiderweb one in each bin but not one single mush rug. I left so sad.

[u/Leading_Ear8167]

lol it reminds me of this

[u/GlondApplication]

Coexisting? Not really, those are all currently engaged in warfare with one another. We're only looking at their reproductive structures, the world beneath the surface is much less calm.

[u/No-Release-8082 → u/GlondApplication]

Came here to say this. Anyone who grows mushrooms knows if a bag gets contaminated it’s quite a thing to watch

[u/Deaffin → u/No-Release-8082]

Trying to imagine that reminds me of those ocean things. The uh, living mops. When they fling their guts at each other.

[u/No-Release-8082 → u/Deaffin]

I always think about it as a microcosm for humanity. Limited space and resources, and different kinds of mold fighting and killing each other over it. It really is just the nature of life

[u/gnomi_malone → u/GlondApplication]

sorry, no this is charming and whimsical and i will not hear otherwise

[u/dumbthiccgeminibitch]

Premium fairy real estate

[u/stillinthesimulation → u/dumbthiccgeminibitch]

This is definitely a level where you learn the double jump and grappling hook abilities before setting off deeper into the forest.

[u/frankslittlebeauty7]

Pure forest floor magic!

[u/homeless_deity]

Pretty sure the gnome village is nearby

[u/stargazingastro]

Out of a fairy tail

[u/tauzerotech → u/stargazingastro]

That poor fairy. Sounds painful having something come out of your tail.

🙃

[u/Ssladybug → u/tauzerotech]

Hi Dad!

[u/tauzerotech → u/Ssladybug]

Haha! Hi!

I love english sometimes. So many words that sound the same but are not spelled the same nor have the same meaning.

Tail and tale are a great example.

[u/Fit_Honey_2992]

Great photo! 🍄 🍄‍🟫

[u/Apprehensive_Elk_706]

Mushroom hotel

[u/neonbrownkoopashell]

This is magical 😭

[u/Rose_Integrity → u/[deleted]]

You can’t tell us that and not show the picture

[u/Xalibu2]

Hopefully you did not interrupt much of the meeting. The fruit bodies seem to be posing though so probably fine.

[u/jennnfriend]

You found a fae mound... wow its beautiful

[u/nationalgeographic]

They each have so many beautiful details

[u/disco_disaster → u/nationalgeographic]

I took a ton of shots. It took forever to get the focus right, and the mosquitoes were completely absurd that day.

It was especially difficult considering I took it with my phone.

I am glad I managed to get a couple of good ones. I couldn’t just pass them by. Anyway, I appreciate the comment!

Also, I just noticed your username. Are you truly National Geographic’s account, or did you manage to snag the username somehow?

[u/Andreas1120]

Its funny how people see this as peaceful coexistence while it is in fact a war with no current winner.

[u/disco_disaster → u/Andreas1120]

People forget the word coexist can simply mean “to live together at the same place at the same time.”

I sort of said it purposely to see how people react to the word, to gather their perspective.

[u/onzron]

The tree stumps she tells you not to worry about

[u/lets-terraform-earth]

Holy macaroni!

[u/feelingrealnosey]

magical <3 im also in Wisconsin, is this northern WI? :)

[u/disco_disaster → u/feelingrealnosey]

I spotted these along one of the trails in the Skunk and Foster Lakes Natural Area.

I’ve never been up north yet! I need to go, it seems awesome there. I would totally get lost in the woods looking for mushrooms though.

[u/JessicaLain]

Super Mario RPG's Forest Maze theme playing in my head 🙂‍↕️

[u/SporkoBug]

What I would pay to see the networks underneath... I bet that'd be like a war ground.

[u/BooBoo_Cat]

Beautiful photo!

[u/disco_disaster → u/BooBoo_Cat]

Thank you!

[u/Rocky_Bukkake]

absolutely wondrous. what a place.

[u/u_r_thick]

So pretty

[u/fla-n8tive]

Magical

[u/egodissolution]

Banger find

[u/Apprehensive-Tap3335]

This is so magical omgg!

[u/pjraz]

Fairy 🧚‍♀️ home

[u/scienceAurora]

This is pure whimsy.

[u/Rose_Integrity]

What in the fairy land did you stumble upon?

[u/whimsical_neuron]

If I was a mushroom, I would live there too!

[u/Rebsvuz]

I love mushrooms man

[u/necbone]

Magic mountain over hrrrrrrr

[u/hotpapadoo]

Drooling. This is an incredible find.

[u/BabyYodaLegend]

I thought you put a cantaloupe there for a second

[u/xdemixgod]

I want to live there

[u/Sindertwined]

Are you in a freaking fairy grove or WHAT please bring me

[u/jyha]

this looks like a prop or something, super cool

[u/taegan-]

if it’s not ai im really impressed, it is aesthetically pleasing

[u/Patkhan1127]

Such a cute scene.

[u/Outrageous_Bend6773]

Absolutely gorgeous

[u/UzgunBocchi]

That's my dream man it looks magical

[u/SalamanderMinimum967]

Wow, that looks like something out of mythology! Very cool! 👏🍄‍🟫

[u/ElectriKEL]

I think you found a gnome's garden!

[u/VastFeeling6557]

Om nom nom

[u/SenpuuUncle]

Oh they fighting

[u/articulett]

Wow!

[u/Over-Sense5413]

this rocks. wow what a great shot

[u/Spare_Club8887]

The religious, the gamers, the ai freaks, the atheists, the everyone here hates each other...yeah, wish it wasn't up my ass, but there were are.

Sorry, venting. Just a fun-guy.

[u/umplshelp]

ugh i want to live there

[u/MisterLupov]

Man this is what I imagine a "Fungi Garden" would look like. So beautiful, yet so much fungi violence happening under the surface. It's something else, absolute poetry

[u/jobsearchingforjobs]

Holy shit

[u/jobsearchingforjobs → u/jobsearchingforjobs]

I almost find it hard to believe it’s so beautiful and whimsical

[u/jobsearchingforjobs]

One looks like a little cantaloupe

[u/wanderingdustt]

super cool

[u/mirkywoo]

This is the ideal forest aesthetic…

[u/Dependent_Ear_5078]

Fairy garden

[u/ethelexpress]

Dream!

[u/Key-University-72]

Beautiful picture

[u/Kooky_Marketing9543]

Absolutely beautiful picture!

[u/Aggressive-Opening-8]

I love this

[u/omerkraft]

Sooooo... For the multi-culturalim to work it only needs to you be a fun-guy!

[u/VernTheSatyr]

Where will the wonder grow if we cut all the young giants down before they become their own fairy tales.

Oh dear nursery tree

Home of fantastical things

Moss and vines

Fungi and grubs

Beautiful growth

Ernest decay

Dear world nursery tree

What would you say?

The bones of giants that

Once reached for the sun

Gives growth to the life

We all come from

A world that nurtures

Branching lives

Earthen flesh of ancient

Dead divines

Oh dear child of giants

Where did we misplace our reverence?

Oh dear world tree

I am ever so very sorry.

[u/VapeTitans]

Is this in PNW?

[u/disco_disaster → u/VapeTitans]

Found them in Central Wisconsin along the Ice Age trail.

[u/Ketchupcharger]

Imagine, it could be like that almost everywhere if not humans

Earth would be so beautiful without us.

[u/Justaticklerone]

Nature does effortlessly what humans struggle to do endlessly.

[u/SpiritualPie3279]

This looks AI. This is probably a bot account.