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What on earth is this?

Julia1983Julia1983 Posts: 139
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It's coming up in my mums garden and she insists it is alive and growing, although I initially thought it was an old sock 😂
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Something off a kids toy. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Julia1983Julia1983 Posts: 139
    I'm a bit worried about her eyesight now, as well as her horticultural ability  :D
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It could be something like an ox-tongue fungi - although that usually grows on wood. Yours does look distinctly woolly, though - with maybe a leaf underneath it.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Whatever it is, someone’s made a good job of threading cotton round and round to hold the fluffy stuff on it. 
    I  think your mum’s  having you on and wants to cheer you up during lockdown. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Does your mum have a risqué sense of humour? 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Willywarmii flufii perhaps?
    Devon.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2020
    It does look like it has thread around it. It's like the thumb of a glove.
    I would imagine that if she touched it, she would know if it's vegatable or not fom its texture.
  • Julia1983Julia1983 Posts: 139
    Well spotted Lyn, I hadn't noticed that!  I hope shes winding me up, its worked anyway.....

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2020
    Hostafan1 said:
    Willywarmii flufii perhaps?

    @Hosta - yes, lesser spotted dwarf willy warmer.
  • Julia1983Julia1983 Posts: 139
    Hostafan1 said:
    Willywarmii flufii perhaps?
     :D   :D   I'm going to send her this...... 
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