BEMUSED Redhill residents have received an unwelcome visit from a "freaky" fungus.
A mammoth mushroom, measuring eight inches across, has pushed through a concrete driveway to a block of flats in London Road.
Resident Sue Connor, 60, spotted the peculiar puffball yesterday (Monday).
By this morning, baby mushrooms had burst through the Tarmac, stretching the area of the towering toadstools to 15 inches.
Mrs Connor said: "I have never seen anything like it in my life. It looks like an alien coming out of the Tarmac.
"It's come out like a bloody tree.
"Every day it changes. It's really funny."
She said residents have nicknamed the forceful fungus the "volcanic mushroom" as it spreads across the driveway. Cars have so far avoided running it over.
"It's really freaky," Mrs Connor said. "The ground must be pretty weak, how can something like that come through it? I need to get some sort of gardening expert. It's just so extraordinary."
Mushrooms grow under the driveway when there is decaying organic matter underneath which provides the damp conditions mushrooms need to thrive.
Mushrooms blasting through asphalt is unusual but can be stamped out by using fungicide or digging up the driveway and soil and relaying it.
Mrs Connor added: "There are lots more coming, it's growing at a rate of speed.
"In another week's time it's going to be amazing."
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