Puzzles

[Anthony Darby]

Yes Armin, that's one of the plants, but the other is not so visible in the photo. This is what wikipedia says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phacelia_tanacetifolia

[Armin]

Anthony,
good, the second is maybe Nicandra physaloides?

[Lesley Cox]

A rotting honeydew melon? (I'd happily be detained by you Cliff. )

[Anthony Darby]

Anthony,
good, the second is maybe Nicandra physaloides?

Not Nicandra Armin.

[alpines]

Cliff....that's the sandwich I dropped 10 years ago. Glad you found it buddy. I'm starving !!!!!!

[arillady]

Cliff is it some sort of spider house?

[ranunculus]

Cliff....that's the sandwich I dropped 10 years ago. Glad you found it buddy. I'm starving !!!!!!

All very creditable answers folks, apart from Alan's of course, who would sooner have ridden naked on an emaciated camel than drop a crumb of food ... !   

[Maggi Young]

That melon looks  knitted to me... Isthat foam coming from the top? 

[Ragged Robin]

Is the foam a sort of yeast?  It does look like a stump puffball of some sort but I have never seen one with moss on it

[ranunculus]

Hi Robin,
I have to admit that I took this shot as an afterthought whilst on a woodland walk with my grandchildren ... to be honest I have never seen anything like it before, so any suggestions are very welcome.
It does look like a puffball but surely the moss wouldn't have had time to grow over it - it must have lifted up the thin mossy layer as it grew - and what about the foam-like substance - not, as one would expect, a powder spray of spores?  Very strange.

[ranunculus]

The idea just struck me (how slow am I) to blow up the original image ... here are the results ...

[Carlo]

Looks like a wad of stuffing from a jacket. Have you determined whether it's organic or synthetic?

[ranunculus]

Looks like a wad of stuffing from a jacket. Have you determined whether it's organic or synthetic?

Am I alone in suspecting a headless Kermit the frog dumped from a pram?   

I really wish I had time to return to the location to investigate!

[Lesley Cox]

You mean you've put up this puzzle withouit knowing the answer yourself? That's rude.

[ranunculus]

You mean you've put up this puzzle withouit knowing the answer yourself? That's rude.

Lesley, Lesley, Lesley ... this 'quandary' was initially introduced thus...

A puzzle without a solution this time ... unless YOU know different?

This item was photographed in a beech wood in Lancashire this week ... about the size of a honeydew melon ... any suggestions please?

Hence, no subterfuge ... no deception ... and absolutely no rudeness!