Solved!
On April 1st, 2002, I wrote in my livejournal.com account a rather romantic description of a certain mushroom-like object growing in my front lawn. This certain object was of a bright orange color that looked like a group of tentacles extending upward and somewhat outward, touching once again at the top. It resembled a sort of trap for insects, or even for larger animals like lizards or toads. On the inside of each bright-orange tentacle was a thick dark-brown goo.
If you go to http://www.allaboutmushrooms.com/Phallales.htm you will see exactly what I saw growing in my front lawn one day. It is called "aseroa rubra" ('flower fungus'), from the Clathraceae family of Phallales. (I know, I know, mumbo-jumbo.)
I feel relieved and enlightened, not robbed of a childhood mystery as the last line in the April 1st post implied I would be.
If you go to http://www.allaboutmushrooms.com/Phallales.htm you will see exactly what I saw growing in my front lawn one day. It is called "aseroa rubra" ('flower fungus'), from the Clathraceae family of Phallales. (I know, I know, mumbo-jumbo.)
I feel relieved and enlightened, not robbed of a childhood mystery as the last line in the April 1st post implied I would be.