Re: [Adastra] Ice Mushrooms

[Roger Jones]

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I think these will be a variation of "Ice Flowers", our examples found in
the Ashdown Forest caused some interest a few years ago.

It seems conditions have to be just right, in our case very wet wood then
froze causing the ice to expand in these shapes.

Vic Downer did a tasting and declared it was ice! 

See the following link for spectacular examples.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en-GB
<http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en-GB&q=ice+flowers&sourceid=navclient
-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_en-GBGB333GB334&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=4SGVS-2fMtm5jAfjsKX_Cg&sa=X
&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQsAQwAA>
&q=ice+flowers&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_en-GBGB333GB334&um=1&ie=UTF
-8&ei=4SGVS-2fMtm5jAfjsKX_Cg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ve
d=0CBgQsAQwAA

and

http://my.ilstu.edu/~jrcarter/ice/

 

 

Roger

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pennygr...@sussexwt.org.uk
Sent: 08 March 2010 12:32
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Subject: [Adastra] Ice Mushrooms

 

Hello everyone, 

Whilst walking in Kingley Vale a few weeks ago, we noticed lots of icy
protrusions coming from the ground. On further inspection we noticed that
they were mostly all mushroom-shaped, and were coming out of individual
lumps of chalk as if the water had been drawn out of the chalk and in to
this distinct shape. 

We'd never seen this before, has anyone else? I attach some pictures in case
you're interested! 

All the best, Penny 

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Penny Green
Species Officer
Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre
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