Yon woodland, like a human mind,
Has many a phase of dark and light;
Now dim with shadows wandering blind,
Now radiant with fair shapes of light.
PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE: _The Woodland._

Peziza tenacella

Peziza tenacella is a wood-rotting ascomycete cup fungus growing especially on burnt ground, in groups and clumps. It is common after bushfires.

Peziza tenacella

- Peziza tenacella, on burnt ground, in huge numbers, Wilson's Promontory, Victoria, Australia. July, 2005. The park had h