Black, overgrown as if with corals - this is what the local parasitic mushrooms looked like - the trunks stretched to the sky in myriads of branches, abundantly overgrown with coarse black hair and planted with bluish membranous leaves, damn near looking like the wings of bats. Hanging cords of spore-bearing plants with thickenings at the ends completed the picture worthy of the brush of Durer or Salvator Dali. The forest literally put pressure on the psyche...