Capron Park Rose Garden

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My dad came up to visit on Saturday and we didn't have a plan of what to do. I drove us to Attleboro, since I'd been there relatively recently for the first time and enjoyed it. I was looking for the Natty Greene Tavern so we could get some lunch, but I found Capron Park first. We walked to a lovely little rose garden.


We both separately decided this orange rose was unusual and beautiful enough to stop and photograph it.


Of course, being who I am, I was much more interested in the fungal wildlife that had colonized the wet mulch around the roots of the roses. All around I found the same species--or perhaps species complex--Coprinellus micaceus, the mica cap mushroom. These were about half again larger than I usually see them, which makes me wonder how diverse the complex is in our part of the world.