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LOCATION:
Strumpshaw Fen
DATE FOUND:
09 April 2023
A bright, lemon-yellow spongy mass found almost underneath a rotting log.
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The next day (10 April 2023), it had turned into a pink-black spore mass, the spores being brown, while the structure was inky black, some dark purple-pink.
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11 September 2023:
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12 April 2023:
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