That’s the hot topic around Tawonga and Mount Beauty as a property owner, finder, and keeper parade the fungi around the towns.

Whatever the resemblance, it was an unusual find for Mike Canning, who discovered a field of mushrooms on a woodcutting expedition two weeks ago on James Miles’s Mountain Creek property.

“I went back to look for more and found a big 10 metre crop of them in an alien’s foot formation,” Mr Miles said.

“They were growing in a circle, like Stonehenge, and it looks a bit like an alien’s foot.”

Mr Canning gave a bag of the mushrooms to his mate Stephen Blair who passed them on to his mother-in-law Joan Price.

“She was washing them and came across one that we think looks like a bear paw, not that I’ve seen one before,” Mr Blair said.

He said the mushrooms he has seen this year were “very strange.”

“They are a lot bigger than they have been in previous years and are growing in circles like toadstools, but I’ve been eating them and I’m all right,” he said.

Mr Blair said the mushroom had been doing the rounds of Mount Beauty and Tawonga for two weeks and was beginning to look a little worse for wear.