Another Giant

[CapAndBracket]

Last Autumn we had the Giant Geastrum,
Today it was a Peziza vesiculosa.

Cheers J.P.

[naturelover]

Hi and welcome,enjoy your stay.

[NickCantle]

Excellent find J.P. The year is looking promising already!!!

[Fungus Ken]

Must be growing on some tasty substrate. Of course size isn't everything JP. It's not how big your specimen is that counts, it's what you do with it.

Ken

[Fungus Ken]

Just to clarify my earlier comments, in case of any misinterpretation, what I meant was, if you have an unusual specimen you should spend a lot of time examining it if you want to avoid frustration.

Ken

Hmmm. Not sure that makes things better.

[CapAndBracket]

Well the substrate appears to be a well rotted heap of mowings (curiously there seems to be a lot of gorse included). I though better of examining it closely, with the idea that left undisturbed it may stay in roughly present condition till next weekend when maybe (weather permiting) some eminient souls may turn up and photograph it before removal from said substrate. May i suggest wide angle lense, so as to include the dozen others (of more modest proportions) on the same pile. Of course they may have all grown considerably in the meantime.

Cheers J.P.

[cybershot]

I know the distinctive colour, single helix DNA and the striation at the margins with variable scales should be a dead giveaway but it's the triangular shaped aperture that is puzzling me. This is going to be a difficult one to square away J.P. Looking forward to photographing it next weekend!

David

[CapAndBracket]

Originally Posted by cybershot

I know the distinctive colour, single helix DNA and the striation at the margins with variable scales should be a dead giveaway but it's the triangular shaped aperture that is puzzling me. This is going to be a difficult one to square away J.P. Looking forward to photographing it next weekend!

David

I accept responsibility for your confusion, here it is due to my point and shoot camera, the distinctive (single colour) is due to my lense seeing all the diffraction but no refraction (hence no rainbow), a scalar lense would turn the single helix DNA into a linear feature (much easier to interpret). With your lense i'm confident the aperture will look more like sunrise over a pyramid (roughly keyhole shape).
Found anything rare today?

Cheers J.P.

[cybershot]

Originally Posted by CapAndBracket

I accept responsibility for your confusion, here it is due to my point and shoot camera, the distinctive (single colour) is due to my lense seeing all the diffraction but no refraction (hence no rainbow), a scalar lense would turn the single helix DNA into a linear feature (much easier to interpret). With your lense i'm confident the aperture will look more like sunrise over a pyramid (roughly keyhole shape).
Found anything rare today?

Cheers J.P.

Nah........... thought for one moment we'd had a rocking horse in the garden overnight but it turned out to be Chaka after he'd finished off a doggie bag containing the remains of a huge tasty Surrey pork hock served up to me at the Forresters at Church Crookham

[Fungus Ken]

If it had been equine dung, how would you tell the difference between rocking horse dung and unicorn dung? This is beyond my area of expertise.

Ken