Although we've only had about 30mm over the past week, the added moisture together with still warm air and soil temperatures has seen meant we've seen the appearance of some sexy little fungi over the past week. These guys are in our rainforest garden, happily working their decomposing magic on the leaf litter.
And in our Great Big New Bush Garden (everyone else seems to be going with Great Big New...) we've seen these gold-tops pop up as well as...
this beauty..and as you can see by the visitors on it, it's trick, apart from looking remarkably phallic is to give off a fragrance not dissimilar to rotting flesh, hence the attractiveness to flies.
Although we've only had about 30mm over the past week, the added moisture together with still warm air and soil temperatures has seen meant we've seen the appearance of some sexy little fungi over the past week. These guys are in our rainforest garden, happily working their decomposing magic on the leaf litter.
And in our Great Big New Bush Garden (everyone else seems to be going with Great Big New...) we've seen these gold-tops pop up as well as...
this beauty..and as you can see by the visitors on it, it's trick, apart from looking remarkably phallic is to give off a fragrance not dissimilar to rotting flesh, hence the attractiveness to flies.
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Cool fungi Kevin. I liked the look of the last one-it looks a bit like a pale morel- til you got to the rotting flesh stink bit.
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