These delicate structures are the fruiting bodies of a bird’s nest fungus (Crucibulum laeve). The flat ‘eggs’ contain spores and are thrown from the ‘nest’ by splashes of raindrops. The fungi grow on fallen leaves and branches on the forest floor.
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Department of Conservation
Reference:
10055598
Photograph by Paul Schilov
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