Jonathan Tulloch writing in The Times newspaper sketched out the weirdness of one of nature's most colourful fungi - an alien from down under!
‘Surely the oddest of all mushrooms is the devil’s fingers fungus. First emerging above the soil as an egg-shaped excrescence, this egg then “hatches”, and three to eight tentacles slowly unfurl. Cathrus acrheri"...
The fungus arrived into the UK apparently from Australia and New Zealand, carried in with war supplies of wood in 1914.
The stink attracts flies and beetles who then spread the sticky spores.’
