When I came back from my weekly shopping today, when I parked the car in the usual place in front of my house ... and to be completely precise, when I got out of the car, took a bag filled with groceries and on my third step towards the house ...
... I noticed these Tripe fungi ...
... at the base of the laurel tree.
Here you can see the car ... and a bit of the general, very mundane small town setting in winter.
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Auricularia mesenterica is the name of this species ... it has similarities, and is also related to the Wood ear fungi, the Auricularia auricula-judae ... the similarity is stronger on the lower side of the fruiting body ...
... while on the upper side resembles a Turkey tail fungi.
These fungi were probably here for quite some time, but I noticed them only today ... maybe because is Fungy Fridey, and so my brain is on the Fungi mission from the early morning ... on some deep, unconscious level :)
As always, the photographs are made by me.