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Probably my favourite fungus this year, every year is different, is the Earth Star, which is not really your typical mushroom form at all.

It's what we call gastromycy, which means a stomach fungus.

So it creates its spores in a big sack.

And when it's ready and it's all kind of ripe, the outer layer peels back like the petals of a flower.

And curl so far back, they curl underneath this big ball of spores and they push it up out of the leaflet and out of the ground.

And the mouth of this sack bursts open and with every nuzzling squirrel or every raindrop or every child poking around in the undergrowth that comes by, they nudge this ball of spores and plumes of dark spores just erupt out of it.

And they're just so fun to play with and they're very weird, they're really striking.

And they're long-lived, crucially.

So once they start appearing, you can keep coming back and watching them and develop

and they'll be there until they're, if they're even fully empty.

So they just, the gift that keeps on giving once you find them.

And they're one of these wonderful recycling fungi, the sapatrophic fungi.

So they're doing good stuff. They're releasing the nutrition from dead leaves, dead things, on that ground layer and creating a lovely rich humus soil.

Bungi often get a bad rap in the garden, but they're not all troublemakers.

In fact, many play essential roles in maintaining healthy ecosystems, supporting both our soil and plants.

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