Saturday, August 7, 2010

unknown fungi


unknown fungi
Originally uploaded by vickylw
I found these under my chives, growing out of the mulch, while watering my tiny herb / rose bed --- no idea what it is.

5 comments:

  1. Vicky,this is an earthstar of some sort. I am not sure which one. Maybe if you googled Beaked Earthstar or Arched Earthstar one of them might be it.

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  2. Maybe "Astraeus hygrometricus".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astraeus_hygrometricus

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  3. Thanks for the help, Lisa and Francisco! It is definitely a type of earthstar, which I had never heard of before. Kind of cool looking!

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  4. Aren't they cool?? Thanks for the information, everyone!

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