SilverSable wrote:Would this one be based on
Entoloma hochstetteri aka Werewere-kokako? Its a super vibrant blue mushroom native to New Zealand that also has a slight pink/reddish tint to the underside of the cap.
So when this litter first came out, my immediate thought for the blue baby was Indigo Milkcap (
lactarius indigo) because it's one of the most well-known blue mushrooms and it was the one that sprang to mind when I saw that shade of blue, but it did always bug me that the little mushroom on the flank of the newborn didn't look like a Milkcap, and after you posted this I think you might be right! The mushroom on this deer looked a lot more like that
entoloma species than it does a milkcap π
I still have absolutely no idea what the brown deer from yesterday is based off, other than it's probably a bracket funghi species π