I visited the Fischer's Egg Farm (see below post) again yesterday, six days after my previous visit. In the interim the site had been subject to some Fischer's Egg tourism! Plenty of Brook Waimārama Sanctuary volunteers were keen to see and/or photograph these rare fungi.
It was interesting to see what effect time had had on them. The first photo below is copied from my previous post. The second is the same three eggs but six days later. Note the one on the right was in much more of a hurry to escape its shell than the lower one.
This one is about the size of a marble. Note that it has completely detached from its shell (above it) and rolled down the hill.
Looks like a bunch of fruiting bodies all growing on top of one another.
It would be tempting to dig around here and see what it looks like underground (of course I didn't). That's likely exactly what a pig would have done if they'd been allowed. There would be a pile of overturned soil and we could only guess at what tasty morsels had been eaten. I could imagine a pig destroying a patch of 20+ Fischer's Eggs in a few minutes.
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