Fungus Flowers

All it takes is rain for the fungus flowers to appear.

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Even in winter, the bonnets bloom.

Perched on stalks like tiny parasols.

Raised only inches high to open their tops

and stretch out their gills

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to spread their spores

to sow some more

fungus flowers.

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