[Adastra] ice mushrooms

[Jim Steedman]

If you do a Google Search for 'ice mushroom' you get pictures of an
assortment of weird, blobby shapes, none looking particularly like a
mushroom to me. And it is true that in certain conditions, in the centre of
our frozen birdbath there is occasionally a protrusion of ice that could be
the start of this sort of thing. But Penny and Dave's excellent high-quality
photos show something entirely different, and much more like real fungi such
as Phallus impudicus modelled in ice. Some of the heads of the structures
appear to have sharp undercut edges, not at all like a simple ice-blob, but
much more like a true fungal head. 

 

I have a considerable admiration for Kaddie as one of our best weather
forecasters, but I don't believe for a minute in her ice-mushroom theory:
something much more weird has happened here.

 

Jim