৩০ আগস্ট, ২০১৬

Some very large, freakishly cartoonish mushrooms have been popping up around town.

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৩০টি মন্তব্য:

Paddy O বলেছেন...

Fairies. No doubt about it.

traditionalguy বলেছেন...

Fungus among us.

Rob বলেছেন...

That's a clown mushroom bro.

Peter বলেছেন...

Giant puffballs?

Smilin' Jack বলেছেন...

What do they taste like?

Rusty বলেছেন...

Member of the Amanita family?

Paul বলেছেন...

They look like Amanita Muscaria. If so they are mildly toxic but hallucinogenic.

n বলেছেন...

Why does Anthony Weiner pop up in my mind?

n বলেছেন...

Answer: Moral decay and high humidity.

David বলেছেন...

Here. Take it bite. It won't hurt you.

David বলেছেন...

Moral decay and high humidity.

That's "Morel" decay.

Jake বলেছেন...

It's hard to tell if they're indeed "freakishly huge" since there's nothing in the pictures providing any perspective.

Jake বলেছেন...

Forgive me. You said "very large" and "freakishly cartoonish." They still don't look all that large.

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

The largest one is about 6" in diameter.

BarrySanders20 বলেছেন...

A patch of those in my lawn surprised me today. I was impressed, the dog was not.

MadisonMan বলেছেন...

Yes, I've seen those. I've meant to send pictures to the onthegroundinmadison tumblr, but never have.

Fernandinande বলেছেন...

We used to find something that looked liked those in the CO mountains, sometimes over a foot across and red.

A big mushroom

Fernandinande বলেছেন...

Fernandinande said...A big mushroom
That's NOT from CO.

Mid-Life Lawyer বলেছেন...

Same thing down in Texas. There is a huge mushroom bed in the lawn outside the apartment I am leasing.

William বলেছেন...

It is said that freaky mushrooms grow where the Mad Clown Killer buries the bodies of the children he has killed. Probably just a foolish superstition.

ndspinelli বলেছেন...

A Polish woman who lived next door to us when I was a kid would take me out mushroom hunting. This has been a great summer for mushrooms. This woman taught me how to tell the edible from the poisonous ones. Like fresh picked corn tomatoes, etc., freshly picked mushrooms are much better than store bought.

PB বলেছেন...

Was one of the little ones hiding in Anthony Weiner's underpants?

rhhardin বলেছেন...

Toads lick them for a high.

madAsHell বলেছেন...

Trump, the magnificent bastard is playing about 30 miles north of Seattle in Everett.

Alex বলেছেন...

and I lick the toads for an even bigger high.

Mid-Life Lawyer বলেছেন...

By the way, Hillary has started looking like a mushroom in recent years. I noticed it a couple of years ago.

Rusty বলেছেন...

Blogger Paul said...
They look like Amanita Muscaria. If so they are mildly toxic but hallucinogenic.

I don't think they are Muscaria, but another member of the Amanita familily. Not all of which are toxic. I only know of a handful of mushrooms that I can identify and safely eat. Morels, half morels chantrelles, hen of the woods. Even so it's good to look at the spoors under a microscope just to verify. For whatever reason these seem to like wood mulch.

amr বলেছেন...

These are not Amanitas, but one of maybe 3 species of parasols, two edible and one toxic.

They look like the edible "Parasol mushroom" Macrolepiota procera.
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/macrolepiota_procera.html

Another possibility is the edible "Shaggy Parasol" Chlorophyllum rhadoces.
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/chlorophyllum_rhacodes.html

But they could be the toxic "False Parasol", "Green-spored Parasol", or "Green-spored Lepiota" Chlorophyllum molybdites. Those have popped up all over the Twin Cities in the last two weeks. They are the #1 cause of mushroom poisoning in the United States. To test for that species, take a spore print (put a cap on a piece of paper for a few hours, gills down; on older specimens, just look at the gills). If the spores are greenish, it's this one and throw it out.
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/chlorophyllum_molybdites.html

amr বলেছেন...

P.S. Whichever species, these are not going to give anyone a high.

Rusty বলেছেন...

Thanks amr.
These are all over here too. Suburban Chicago area.