inktober 3

[jinian]

Bird's nest fungus! (Some kind of Cyathus, perhaps C. stercoreus.) Found outside the Herbarium with a pointer from our awesome front desk person. I took reference photos today with my good macro camera and drew it up at home. This is more or less a developmental sequence, lower left to upper right. The fruiting body opens and eventually spills the little dark-gray periodoles onto the ground, going farther the more the rain splashes them. Did my best to represent that some are missing in the later stages, but ink is hard!

Comments

[troisroyaumes]

They remind me of mushi!

[jinian]

That's perfect. :)