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Red Sponge type thing ... Urgh ....


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I have noticed several Red Sponge Type Net Things appear in the garden .... I thought that they had just been dropped there but on closer inspection they have grown there .... they are Red (as said) and look and feel like sponge and also look like a string bag that you would get oranges in (but much thicker and smaller) ... they look pretty UCK to me and are probably dangerous ... as I think most RED things in the garden are.

Strange sounding I know .... but any ideas ?

Thanks

Val

 

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Yes Val, I found two of those in my grass in the Vendee this week!  They are amazing-looking, aren't they?  I meant to take a photo but forgot.  And all my fungus-type books are there and not here in London!

Have just visited Roger Phillips's excellent site http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/ and entered the fungus's properties - to be told it's a basket stinkhorn (clathrus ruber), and that it pops out of innocuous-looking white puffballs.

See pix here http://home.pacbell.net/seaonion/stink.html
or here http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~6941.asp

Angela

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