His eyes are orange, his tongue is black, he has purple prickles all over his back.
Oh help, oh no, it must be a gruffalo!
Just like the mouse in the popular children’s book by Julia Donaldson, visitors to St Andrews Botanic Garden will find the knobbly kneed character hiding in the deep, dark woods.
The garden has launched its own Gruffalo Trail, and several creatures from the book can be discovered lurking among the trees.
Carved oak story posts were funded by Fife Creative Learning Network and designed and installed by furniture maker Alan Kain.
The Gruffalo model was carved from solid elm by fireman Ross McCreadie and is hiding behind a rhododendron under the giant redwood in the peat garden.
Garden tutors and volunteers also worked with groups of children to make the fox, owl, snake and mouse and other animals pictured in the book including hedgehogs, frogs, birds, bugs and butterflies.
The characters can be spotted hiding up trees, in bushes and even in water along the trail which is accessible by wheelchair and pram.
