Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
For Dixie and Faerisweet
11 Jun '07 3:57 am I took a whole lot of pics on a walk this afternoon, but I must post this one specially for the two of you - it is the best example of a fairy's toadstool that I've found on the farm in 20 years!
It would seem that the unexpected and severe cold of two weeks ago prompted a lot of fungus action - anybody heard of that happening, or is it just a co-incidence?
jacqueline
Thankful Gardener
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
11 Jun '07 4:50 am Wow, Jack! What an awesome find! It looks really pretty in crimson shade and spotted all over. Amazing that its trunk (is that what it's called?) is so white! Hehe...I've a man-made set of three in my garden, but hadn't known that such fungus exist! Thanks for sharing!
11 Jun '07 6:04 am Wow, Jack! What a unique find. I want to make some of those too. I too, thought that this form of fungus was imaginary. I wonder how wide spread their domain is?
jacqueline, the trunk is called a "stalk" or a "stem" and the top is called the "cap"on mushroom type thingys. Your 3 are fine examples for man made ones.
Christopher
Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
fairy thingles
11 Jun '07 7:28 am FUNGUS ACTION !
Somehow that word isn't quite right !
Thank you Jack for the amazing photo
Dixie
Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
12 Jun '07 1:01 pm I've 'spotted' (yes, pun intended) similar fungi at my sister's place in the Coromandel, growing amongst the native bush.
faerisweet
nominate your own title
Poolville,Texas
fairy mushrooms
12 Jun '07 7:13 pm Jack, that is amazing, I have seen alot of toadstools or mushrooms but never one that actually looked like the ones in fairy tales. Thank you for posting that ... So if fairy mushrooms are real, perhaps the fairy folk are too, LOL.
Thanks for sharing! 
... So if fairy mushrooms are real, perhaps the fairy folk are too, LOL.