Beautiful but grotesque. I'd never seen anything like this fungi before, the Octopus Stinkhorn. It is growing in a damp shady corner in Mum's garden. The fungi starts growing as a grey/brown ball or egg before splitting open and unfolding into a red star. The olive green centre is the spore. The revolting part of this fungi is, as it matures it stinks of rotting flesh, oozing slime and attracting blowflies. Not the best thing to have growing right near your front door. The blowflies are swarming and have spread the spores, so now little brown fungi balls are popping up everywhere.
