If you go down to the woods near Oxshott today, you're in for a big surprise...
No teddy bear's picnic, I'm afraid, but something even more bizarre - Starfish Fungus (Aseroe rubra). After having seen Red Cage during the week I'm positively overdosing on exotic fungi. A big thanks to Seth Gibson for the precise grid reference that led me to a fine cluster of these beauties in several states of development.
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Fully 'out', with a slick of foul smelling gunk on top |
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An egg, awaiting to give birth to an alien like the one above |
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This one's gone over, looking like a tideline corpse - more marine than mycological |
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