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Hibiscus flowers in various colours (red, orange, yellow, white, and possibly even blue), are popular ornamentals in Sri Lankan gardens.

Young inflorescence on a palm tree growing in the garden of the Taj Airport Garden Hotel, Seeduwa, north of Colombo.

Garden of the Taj Airport Garden Hotel, Seeduwa, north of Colombo.

The spectacular leaves of Elephant Ear (Xanthosoma undipes) growing in the grounds of the Gateway Hotel Airport Garden, north of Colombo.

Sights like this left me in no doubt that I had left the Scottish winter behind, as I began a two-week tour of Sri Lanka.

I'm not sure what the substrate of this fungus is, which doesn't at all help with identification. I don't recall much Beech in the wood where I saw this, but the spheres do look like Beech Woodwart (Hypoxylon fragiforme).

Update 7 Jan 2012: Thanks to the contributors below for drawing my attention to the fact that this is a myxomycete and not a fungus, genus Lycogala in the Tubiferaceae.