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When I photographed these fun guys on a grave in Hietaniemen hautausmaa (Hietaniemi Cemetery) in Helsinki, I honestly thought they were artificial.

I probably couldn't have got much closer, as the graves were quite close together, but if I'd realised they were natural, I probably would have tried.

Having viewed them, zoomed in, I'm sure they're real. There's no artificial appearance to the stem of the mature fly agaric mushroom in the front.

So, perhaps not my most artistic photograph, but some pretty impressive specimens captured in pixels for a Fungi Friday.