weird fungi ID
 

I found these weird fungi growing in my moss garden. Be prepared, they are a little suggestive-looking. Does anyone know what they are? Try clicking on this link, and if it doesn't work, cut and paste the whole thing into your browser.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/clp7a/...lp7a/my_photos

Also, if anyone knows how to prevent weeds from sprouting up in a moss garden, let me know. There are too many to weed, and I don't know if there's anything I can spray on the moss to kill the weeds.
Thx
-C

weird fungi ID
 

It's a type of stalked puffball, a species of Calostoma. If you do an image
search in Google on Calostoma you'll see several examples. Calostoma species
are unusual because they have a gelatinous outer layer which sloughs off at
maturity, a feature lacking in most puffballs. Someone is currently doing a
doctoral study on this group (Clark Univ.?) trying to determine their
taxonomic relationships. As far as I know their edibility has not been tested.

Fred


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