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This is a strange little thing, which is probably not officially in the Bird's Nest Fungi anymore. Rather than the usual spore packets inside a "nest", it produces a one big round spore mass inside a surrounding rind (the peridium). The peridium then ruptures in a star-like pattern and contracts, shooting out the spore mass like a cannonball. The photo shows many individuals in various stages of this process.
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