This funky mushroom popped up in my yard yesterday. It was about 4 1/2 inches tall with an orange stem and an odd shaped cap. The cap looked like it was a cream color but that layer had mostly peeled back revealing an orange layer. Through both layers, were several “sink holes” in the cap with a brown slimy fluid. That same fluid had gathered at the base of the fungi forming a little moat. This mushroom had an odor (not pleasant) and the flies and gnats were very active and visiting the slimy stuff in the holes and the moat.
I have no idea what this was.... I do know that I sure wouldn’t want to eat it!
I also found some of this Button Clover in the yard. I was pretty excited about this because I think it is such a cool plant with the spiral seed pods.
Both sketches are Ink & watercolor on hemp paper.
Oooh, sounds like a stinkhorn mushroom...they ARE nasty! Love both drawings, though...
ReplyDeleteI've never seen button clover before! Looks fascinating. That mushroom looks prehistoric but pretty interesting! Not that I want to stumble across one. :)
ReplyDeleteStinkhorn would be a very fitting name for that mushroom!
ReplyDeleteLove your art and really admire your handwriting. How did you get so good at printing?
ReplyDeleteI found one of the stinkhorn mushrooms at the Springfield Nature Center, here in Missouri. Whew! But of course I had to draw it...
ReplyDeleteExcellent sketches! I've never heard of button clover -- it's really cute!
ReplyDeleteGreat fungi sketch. Such personality!
ReplyDeleteThanks for showing the Button Clover. Never seen the like. We do get some species of Medicago in Canada, but not the one you are showing. Perhaps we are too wet for it here in BC. It's really neat.