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Title: Guesses what this is?
Post by: tonybloke on May 20, 2010, 23:05:33
Taken today, anyone guess what it is?  (I Know what it is, by the way)
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something not often seen.
Title: Re: Guesses what this is?
Post by: Fork on May 20, 2010, 23:09:06
A pea growing?
Title: Re: Guesses what this is?
Post by: brownowl23 on May 20, 2010, 23:09:39
looks a little mushroom like
Title: Re: Guesses what this is?
Post by: Duke Ellington on May 20, 2010, 23:36:19
mycelium forming
Title: Re: Guesses what this is?
Post by: dtw on May 20, 2010, 23:57:12
Sweetcorn (in the middle) with some mould due to overwatering.
Title: Re: Guesses what this is?
Post by: tugboat on May 21, 2010, 00:03:56
mycorrhiza?
Title: Re: Guesses what this is?
Post by: RobinOfTheHood on May 21, 2010, 06:24:09
Quote from: dtw on May 20, 2010, 23:57:12
Sweetcorn (in the middle) with some mould due to overwatering.

This.
Title: Re: Guesses what this is?
Post by: tonybloke on May 21, 2010, 07:18:35
Quote from: Duke Ellington on May 20, 2010, 23:36:19
mycelium forming

well spotted duchess!!

this is an image of how beneficial mycorrhizae grows, increasing the actual root area of many seeds (in this case Sweetcorn) Many plants for a symbiotic relationship with fungi, It's just normally below the soil, so remaining unseen. ;)