Tidying the garden after winter, picking up leaves and cutting back the old seed heads and stems, I found what looked at first like old, rotted rose buds, but I don't think so.
There is a similarity to the shape, hmm?
(Sorry, just realised my point-and-press has focused on the fence!)
So I checked my trusty Collins gem guide to mushrooms and there was one like it, the Collared Earthstar.
Of course, that picture was taken in the autumn, when the fungi was fresh, not dried and shrivelled like mine.
Also it gives the habitat as on chalk (my garden is almost pure sand) and under beech trees (this was under the magnolia).
So is it, or isn't it?
Any ideas.......?
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