macro photography – bushboys world

Don’t get too close

Published on May 16, 2022 by bushboy42 Comments

If you happen to come across a Stinkhorn Fungus, Aseroe rubra, at first you may not notice anything strange. Then perhaps there could be some flies buzzing about. They are the fungi pollinators.

A Stinkhorn or Starfish fungi, starts out like an egg shaped thing which is the fruit emerging from the ground and then gradually opens up. After it bursts its way through the ground, the fruiting body also oozes out a gelatinous goop known as gleba, which contains the Stinkhorn’s spores. Apparently the gleba smells like the dead, rotting flesh of animals or dung. These smelly mucus mass are full of spores at the base of their arms.

Instead of a music video here is one of the Stinkhorn Fungi opening in time lapse plus a bit of history

Cee’s FOTD

Macro Monday – 16 May

Published on May 16, 2022May 8, 2022 by bushboy5 Comments

Macro Monday – 9 May

Published on May 9, 2022May 8, 2022 by bushboy21 Comments

I was chatting to Graham over at Grahams Island about Cordyline flowers and wondered if my red Cordylines Cordyline rubra would flower. Well I was walking around that part of the garden and there they were!!!!

This is the whole plant, still quite small.

Also for Cee’s FOTD

Getting up close in the garden

Published on May 5, 2022 by bushboy20 Comments

Cee’s Mid-week madness Challenge May: Close up or Macro

I have been trying to get on top of my photos, naming, categorising and putting into folders. I never ending job which I let get out of control.

For this months CMMC, I have these photos from 23 March 2020 that I found while sorting today. Only one has been used before but I didn’t care as I really like it. Can you guess which one?

A blue native flower most likely Scurvy Weed