Earth Star

Sounds like the latest novel by Philip Pullman but is in fact a  fungus of the puff ball variety.
After a lovely blip meet at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh a few weeks ago I was inspired to return for another look. Of course me being me it wasn't so much the flowers that caught my eye, beautiful though they were, it was the insects and fungi. Thrilled to find this earth star as it is in fact a first for me and something that has been on my fungus bucket list ( ugh, that sounds a bit unpleasant) for a while. My extra was another fab find, a coral fungus.