General Chat

As some regulars on this site will know, I enjoy going for my constitutional daily walk at the unseemly hour of 3.00am.

This thread is not to discuss the pro and cons of my mental state for so doing but to describe something I saw a couple of mornings ago which I haven't seen for a few years:

Ghost Fungus

This remarkable member of the fungi family grows at the base of dear and dying trees, or tree stumps. Best viewed in near total darkness (it was nearly the new moon when I stumbled across it) it emits an eerie but bright green light.

The first time I saw it it gave me quite a shock. Now I just stand there and marvel at nature

Nature is just brilliant :-D

I am a country girl and happily search the trunks and branches of both living and dead rotting trees looking for all the different fungi and insects that use them as homes.

Weird aren't I?? ;-)

I'm worried about you two :-S

How brilliant, are they Magic :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

George :-) :-)

Lol@ Ann and George

George, they are magic but not in the accepted sense of the word as it applies to fungi.

The real magic mushrooms are found in and around Balingup about 60 kms from where I live. In the season for their growth, the police are kept extremely busy looking for the illegal possession of these mushrooms

The Police are no fungis :-D

I know Ann, but I was a Gamekeepers daughter and spent much of my happy childhood out in the woods.

:-)

So did I but that's another story ;-) ;-)

:-D :-D

I was a good girl..........as our only neighbours were a retired couple and a herd of cows I had no choice really!

I don't know!

I try to start a serious thread, which for me is remarkable in itself, and someone has to post a comment that requires some thought and more than a little imagination ;-) :-D :-D

There's always one....... :-)

It's normally me! :-)

Mushrooms/toadstools....... I don't know what these are

Every couple of years we get bright blue mushies/toadies on our front lawn.

They last about a week.

I don't know if they glow in the dark....... next time they appear I'll check!

:-D

This is morbid....... there's a blue fungus that appears on dead bodies, I've read that it only appears on battlefields. This is NOT my opinion, I'm just repeating it.

A few days ago when I went for a walk I stopped and circled around a tree taking photos at various angles of the trunk. It was covered in two types of fungi. Unfortunately not all the photos came out well enough to keep.