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Originally Posted by NickCantle  A lovely way to end a fantastic thread and a dry month!!!
Bring on October  |
Well Nick here we are nearly 4 months later and following some on going discussion in my Monster Earthstar thread in which I promulgated the wish to find other Geastrum species, I was prompted to take Chaka for a walk in Minley Wood this afternoon with the express intention of revisiting my original Earthstar site.
I hope I'm not getting prematurely excited by what I found:
Without getting too carried away, bearing in mind that last September the specimens found in this location and recorded above, all clearly appeared to be
G. triplex, today's find of this overwintered example does not seem to display the macro characteristics which I have come to accept as those of Collared Earthstars. Atypically the rays are not bending back on themselves and cracking to present the appearance of a basal collar underneath the spore sac, which in this case now sits atop a short stem. (The size was 7-8 cm across the rays)
Hope somebody can shed some light with a positive ID or explanation.
TIA
David