The potentilla is looking particularly splendid this year. It has never had so many flowers. It must be all the rain we've had.
I went to take a picture, and looked down. What is THAT!? I am not going any nearer. I am certainly not going to touch it. Errgh!
It looks... like something that crawls around with its feelers out, leaving a trail of slime. Maybe an Alien spaceship has left you a souvenir.
ReplyDeleteI reckon it is a piece of pottery gone horribly wrong, or brilliantly right for Aliens ;)
ReplyDeletePoke it with a stick and it might go away.
ReplyDeleteLooks like someone's ceramics project!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Andrew, use a long stick! If it goes " puff" and spores come out it's a fungus. If it's hard it could be a deformed gourd. If it runs away scream loudly, run like mad in the opposite direction and send your photo to the appropriate authorities!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Thelma - it looks like someone went mad in a pottery class. If it is fungus that has to be the coolest fungus I have ever seen - and someone should use it as inspiration for going mad in a pottery class.
ReplyDeleteOh, so that's where it went! I wondered what had happened to it.
ReplyDeleteSend him back home please, Tasker.
Whatever it is, it's having a bad hair day.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like something from outer space!
ReplyDeleteEither it is a piece of ceramic and you are having us on - or it is a fungus - but don't try getting down to smell it - it might be the last thing you do - it could thrive on eating human flesh.
ReplyDeleteTo me it looks like a weird pumpkin - decorative gourd, though I would discuss the "decorative" :-)
ReplyDeleteI agree with Britta. Gourd! But you are not going to keep us in suspense are you? Get a stick! Have Mrs D a safe distance away. With a cell phone.
ReplyDeleteCeramic, surely - and you are being a tease.
ReplyDeleteIt looks a bit slimy, and there is that line of drool running down from beside its mouth. I think you should notify the authorities.
ReplyDeleteYou,sir, need to hie yourself right back here. You have some explaining to do!
ReplyDeleteMatelea cyclophylla I believe - also known as gonolobus. I believe it originated in Mexico. Just call me Bob Flowerdew.
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