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New fungus

Please can you advise me about a new fungus that has started to grow in my lawn. I think it looks lovely but I don’t want it to spoil the lawn or hedges. Should I leave it or will it spread everywhere? I also have a veg patch close by it. 

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  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I think that's a coral fungus @mandy.robins70
    I took a photograph this afternoon of the orange one. There are different colours.
    They usually grow on rotting wood, might there be some under your lawn? 
    As far as I know it won't do any harm but hopefully steephill or one of the other fungi bogs on here will be along shortly to confirm or otherwise. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Ramaria species, Coral Fungus as Uff says,  known here as the 'Scrubbing Brush Fungus'


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    As already suggested it is one of the coral fungi, most probably Ramaria stricta as that is the most commmon species in the UK. It isn't poisonous and won't be a problem in the garden. Enjoy it while it lasts as it will fade away soon enough.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Enjoy it whilst it lasts.  Brush/rake away if you must. It will be back.

    I am eagerly waiting for my red and white spotty toad stools to retun this autumn.  Sorry, memory failure.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    It's Amanita muscaria bede. Crikey, I must be learning, I never thought I'd learn the proper names.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    Thanks Uff. I had remembered Agaric.  I just call it "toadstool", everbody knows that. And of course it was not memory but access that was the problem.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I have to confess that it's members on here that answer my ID questions that has encouraged me to continue my hobby and for that I thank them. When I started I was more interested in edibles but now I want to know what they all are. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Thanks everyone for the advice.  I will definitely leave it and enjoy. 
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