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A little too close for comfort

A little too close for comfort
"The Hypsizygus tessellatus or shimeji is an edible mushroom native to East Asia. Buna shimeji is cultivated locally in Europe, North America and Australia and sold fresh in markets." Taken from Wikipedia.

I think I'm right in saying that these are Bunapi shimeji. At least two years ago, I noticed a small container of these at Safeway, my grocery store, but felt they were a litttle too expensive to buy, just to photograph. Then on 15 April 2013, I noticed that Safeway had finally got another package of them lying on the shelf amongst all the more usual mushrooms. Not expensive at all, so here they are, in macro size, lol! Apologies to the first few people who commented on this image - they may have thought I'd walked for hours in some dark forest to find these! Needless to say, this is a macro photo. And, no, I didn't eat them : )

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypsizygus_tessellatus

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimeji

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 LeapFrog
LeapFrog
Haha Anne ... Safeway comes to the rescue ... LOL .. terrific lighting and excellent clarity and presentation!! Very well taken!!
12 years ago.
 GoSloMo
GoSloMo
Its great to find shrooms in the supermarket and not having to search 'in the wild'. Lovely photo
12 years ago.

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