cool shrooms! here are some of mine.
the one i dont have pics of looks like a dark brown suede softball. turns to slime smells like rotting flesh.
also occasionally get "indian pipe" but again, no pics of that one.
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Hey Dudley... if that is a basketball in the last pic, then those shrooms are HUGE..... Cool!!
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Wow. Great Shrooms! Those couldn't possibly be giant oyster mushrooms could they?
Don't take that as a word of encouragement. I suspect all shrooms of that general color as being oyster until further inspection. More to do with my appetite than anything else.
The orange one...could it be a chanterelle or something infected with lobster mold? Again, my appetite....Speculation about mushrooms I have yet to find.
I can tell you with confidence that Indian Pipe is not a fungus though. Its a common mistake. Interesting parasite of fungus though. Hmmm....Parasite of fungus..... gee, where do I apply?
Don't take that as a word of encouragement. I suspect all shrooms of that general color as being oyster until further inspection. More to do with my appetite than anything else.
The orange one...could it be a chanterelle or something infected with lobster mold? Again, my appetite....Speculation about mushrooms I have yet to find.
I can tell you with confidence that Indian Pipe is not a fungus though. Its a common mistake. Interesting parasite of fungus though. Hmmm....Parasite of fungus..... gee, where do I apply?
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I get those in my containers too. You can smell them from around 20 feet away. Really nasty.
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Oddly I started getting stinkhorn's in my front flower bed about 4 months ago, and they keep popping up. They have a massive underground root system worse than dollarweed!
Someday maybe I'll find a bamboo my wife likes...in the meantime I'll keep planting more!
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boonut wrote:It's back... the stanky shroom is back. With all the rain, it seems to be larger than last year. It smells like a dead dog or something. Very colorful.
Nice addition to the B. Oldhamii clump as long as you hold your nose.
What you have there is a picture of a Clathrus crispus, a kind of stinkhorn that is found in the Gulf coastal area and the Caribbean. It's a tropical variety.