I ONLY JUST LEARNED ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THIS MUSHROOM????? WHICH ERUPTS FROM AN EGG BEFORE UNCURLING HELLISH ARMS, EXPOSING ITS STICKY MASS OF SPORES TO BE SPREAD BY FLIES ATTRACTED BY THE SCENT OF ROTTING FLESH???
Admittedly, I am easily won over by all organisms that attract flies with the scent of rotting flesh. But the octopus stinkhorn (Clathrus archeri) also has tentacles, a freaky egg stage, and blackish goop, so it’s my favorite now.
It’s in my queue of Botanical Illustrations for a gallery show! also feat. Corpse Flower,
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, a selection of carnivorous plants, the poisonous things lurking in your back yard and several Pieces of dead and decaying things!
The show’s called “Dead, Decaying and Disgusting- The Ugly Side of Plants and Fungi” and it’s an educational exhibit for kids, supposed to be up at CU Bpulder next summer but the gallery head is doing a terrible job answering her email. (Due to contracts, I can’t post any of the works until they’re done, but you bet they will be all over when it’s ready)
Iridescent clouds, looking like a rainbow in the clouds.
A diffraction phenomenon caused by small water droplets or small ice crystals individually scattering light. Larger ice crystals do not produce iridescence, but can cause halos, a different phenomenon.
Moon flowers, yes? My grandmother loved these, we have them planted in our garden 🙂
wow
By the way, is probably not a time-lapse. The flower opens that quickly in person!!!
Yes we had these when I was a kid and one day I just happened to be standing outside looking at them when they started opening and I almost fell down, I’d seen flowers opening in time lapse on TV and had no idea any actually opened that fast.
And it still LOOKS FAKE in person, like it opens in such quick, staggered jerks that you would swear it’s stop motion animation.
Plume de Lynx 