My husband and I went away on vacation for 10 days, leaving the house empty. When we finally came back, I started unpacking our things and went into the bathroom to clean up.
As soon as I opened the door, I noticed something strange on the floor near the wall. At first, I honestly thought someone had left some kind of weird decoration there. But the closer I looked, the stranger it became. It had grown into a huge, pale structure with dozens of little branches, almost like a tiny underwater coral reef.
I called my husband over, and neither of us had any idea what we were looking at. We kept wondering how something so unusual could have appeared while we were away. I even started thinking that it might be some kind of mold or fungus that had somehow grown because the bathroom had been closed for so long.
We spent quite a while examining it from a distance, trying to figure out where it came from and how it had grown so quickly. It was definitely one of the strangest things we had ever found inside our house.
After looking into it, we finally discovered the answer: it turned out to be a coral fungus (Ramaria)! 🍄
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