Autumnal creatures.

[Lars Hansen]

I found this tiny beastie growing in my compost heap.
About 6cm high
Anyone know the name?

Colin - with the long stem and blackened liquid cap then take a look at Coprinus species - ink caps.
According to Wikipedia: Coprinus means "living on dung" - living on your compost heap

[mxbianco]

Clathrus Cancellatus

You can smell this one from tens of meters away, it smells of cadaver, attracts flies and they get stuck in its sticky flesh

Nikon Z7, 60mm f/2.8G AF-S N ED micro-Nikkor + FTZ

Ciao from Massimo

[mxbianco]

I found this tiny beastie growing in my compost heap.
About 6cm high
Anyone know the name?

Coprinus lagopus

Found this one in yesterday's stroll across the mountains, your sample shows a mushroom in an advanced state of decay: the edge starts rolling up and blackening, eventually it melts into a black puddle (deliquescence).

My sample had probably just emerged from the leaves and humus in the forest, it's translucent to the point that you can see through it. In the forest it looked like someone had lost some liquor glasses...

Nikon Z7, 60mm f/2.8G AF-S N ED micro-Nikkor + FTZ

Ciao from Massimo

[Akira]

Clathrus Cancellatus

You can smell this one from tens of meters away, it smells of cadaver, attracts flies and they get stuck in its sticky flesh

Nikon Z7, 60mm f/2.8G AF-S N ED micro-Nikkor + FTZ

Ciao from Massimo

Wow, this looks beautiful and scary at the same time.  Thank you for sharing!

[mxbianco]

Wow, this looks beautiful and scary at the same time.  Thank you for sharing!

Thanks, Akira!

Please note the pentagonal shape of each facet, just like a football (soccer) sphere, allowing for a spherical shape. Had it been hexagonal, you'd have had a bidimensional mushroom...

Ciao from Massimo

[ColinM]

Thank you Lars and Massimo

Coprinus lagopus
... your sample shows a mushroom in an advanced state of decay: the edge starts rolling up and blackening, eventually it melts into a black puddle (deliquescence).

Fascinating
Plus your Clathrus is amazing Massimo
With that reputation, I'm happy to gaze at its fascinating structure and colour, without being overcome by the smell

[Fons Baerken]

Phallus impudicus

growing in the street

Zfc - 23mm f.1.4

[ColinM]

Phallus impudicus
growing in the street

I love it when nature reminds us who's really in charge Fons

[mxbianco]

Phallus impudicus

growing in the street

Zfc - 23mm f.1.4

Not a Phallus impudicus, see for comparison this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_impudicus, it's a Coprinus type fungus, possibly a Coprinus comatus. You can tell by the blackening edge of the mushroom. Phallus impudicus has a greenish tinge (Wikipedia descibes it as "...with a slimy, dark olive colored conical head.", and it stinks to high heaven, just like the Clathrus cancellatus.

You can see a Coprinus comatus on the attached photo, notice the less robust stem compared to phallus impudicus, which has a dicky appearence (phallus=male member)

Nikon Z7, 60mm f/2.8G AF-S N ED micro-Nikkor

Ciao from Massimo

[Fons Baerken]

Thanks Colin and Massimo for the clarification

[ColinM]

...Phallus impudicus, see for comparison this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_impudicus

I think you were understandably being modest by just posting the link to the Common Stinkhorn Massimo
(well that's one English name for it).

A long, long time ago I did a Biology degree. The head of the faculty was a Botanist and one autumn he took great delight in bringing back a very well endowed example of this.
It was put on full display (under a tall domed glass container) in the front entrance, so everyone arriving would walk past it.
Nowadays, that might not be considered politically correct (though of course perfectly fine in that faculty)

I wonder if any of our NG searchers for Autumnal Creatures will find an example to share here?

[mxbianco]

I wonder if any of our NG searchers for Autumnal Creatures will find an example to share here?

I'm pretty sure I have a pic somewhere, but it could be in the remaining 24000 color slides I haven't scanned yet... A quick look in the -many- pics of my digital database turned up nothing.

For the time being, here's another mushroom from last outing, a Coriolus versicolor (Turkey tail):

NIKON Z7, 60mm f/2.8G AF-S N ED micro-Nikkor + FTZ

Ciao from Massimo

[Fons Baerken]

September 17, 2017

IR image, D5300, 18-140mm

[Lars Hansen]

As far as I can see this is Pholiota squarrosa. Shaggy scalycap.

[ColinM]

Interesting Lars
One fungus I see a lot in the UK (and over a period of several weeks from September until well into October) has the UK name of the parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera)

I noticed some similarities with the scaling on the top, though the colours are quite different.