Check out the amazing starfish (or anenome) stinkhorn fungus which has erupted in the garden outside Macmillan Brown Library!
They erupt from a white puffball to a red-armed, tentacled, nightmare overnight. As the kids say, nature is lit.
Check out the amazing starfish (or anenome) stinkhorn fungus which has erupted in the garden outside Macmillan Brown Library!
They erupt from a white puffball to a red-armed, tentacled, nightmare overnight. As the kids say, nature is lit.
How it started..
How it’s going!
Very cool! I first noticed one of these outside Matariki when we were leaving for the very first lockdown. I thought then it was a definite sign that aliens were taking over…
As one of my favourite lecturers many years ago used to say, “fungi are fun” 🙂
Update: we now think ours is most likely an octopus stinkhorn. If you really want nightmares Nat Geo has video of them erupting from their ‘eggs’ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/creepy-plants-fungi-octopus-stinkhorn-gory-details-science
Thanks for sharing. That fungus is similar to a white one that we found in our garden at home once. We called it the Schlumpf, possibly because I had remembered what that meant from my German studies. (See below).
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/german-english/schlumpf