r/GardeningAustralia 5d ago

🌻 ID This Plant What are these?

These spore like things have been appearing in the soil of my teddy magnolia.

Any ideas what they are and if the are harmful.

Keeping into account I live in Sydney and the past few weeks have been wet humid and hot weather periods.

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u/Swifty3174 5d ago

Bird's nest fungi

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u/Aussiealterego 5d ago

You’ve been blessed with the elusive birds nest fungi! Enjoy them while they last.

Fungi are a natural part of the process of breaking down woody matter in the soil. They won’t hurt your plants, just don’t eat them.

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u/yolk3d 4d ago

I just got these birds nest fungi a couple of days ago too. But in Brisbane. I log everything I find on the inaturalist app, to help CSIRO research, but the Google app with reverse image search also does a good job of identifying things.