Alien 'shrooms!

[madhatter 0]

Does anyone know what these things are?

Reminds me of the 'Alien' movies

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D.S # 125

[Andrewwhyte 1]

Never seen anything like it. Where do they grow? Can you eat them?

[madhatter 0]

There're 4 of these things in various stages growing on the farm where I stay - Western Cape, SA. I've been living in the area for 12+ years now & have never seen one in all my hiking around here.

They look like a very short-stemmed mushroom before they start to split open & the webby thingy emerges. It feels like soft cartilage with a very slimy coating.

Not sure I want to be the first to taste, but I can freeze a bit & send it to you to try

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D.S # 125

[Andrewwhyte 1]

Umm, that's OK, the honour should be yours.

[madhatter 0]

Added some more pics.

The 'housing' varies between 1,5" & 2", the skeleton/web/alien/wtf is 5" to 7" across.

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D.S # 125

[popsjumper 2]

Have you been feeding LSD to your 'shrooms?

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[MiataMan 0]

They are Latticework or cage fungi.

http://christmashills.blogspot.com/search?q=Ileodictyon+cibarium+-+Lattice+fungus+

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[JohnRich 4]

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They are Latticework or cage fungi.

Thanks for identifying those. I spend a lot of time in the woods, but I've never run across those strange things before.

Attached: some pretty little mushrooms I spied on a recent hike in Florida.

[DangerRoo 0]

wow very cool!!!!

might be a bad trip though

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[MiataMan 0]

http://www.rogersmushrooms.com
This site has lots of mushroom/fungi. It is also organized so you can try to identify them.

http://americanmushrooms.com/gallery.htm
As does this one

If you are intested in mushrooms pick up a field guide so you can identify them on your hikes.

A man without a mustache is like a hamburger without a bun, Un-American.

[madhatter 0]

Thanks!

I also got the same answer from Dr. Michael Kuo, of MushroomExpert.Com

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/ileodictyon_cibarium.html

Still freaks me out, but it's nice to know other people have also seen these things

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D.S # 125

[madhatter 0]

Nice pics! It's great having your camera around for things like that!

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D.S # 125

[madhatter 0]

I was thinking - maybe chewing on the short bits will make me smaller, the long bits taller...

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D.S # 125

[livendive 8]

Those are pretty cool looking. Way better than the Dog Vomit Slime Molds I had one year. I'd say my critters were more alien-like though, just like The Blob.

Blues,
Dave

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[JohnRich 4]

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Nice pics! It's great having your camera around for things like that!

I don't go off into the woods without it.

And sometimes the best pictures come when you least expect them.

[JohnRich 4]

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http://www.rogersmushrooms.com
This site has lots of mushroom/fungi. It is also organized so you can try to identify them.

http://americanmushrooms.com/gallery.htm
As does this one

If you are intested in mushrooms pick up a field guide so you can identify them on your hikes.

Nice web sites. Thanks for those references.

Gosh, I've already got so many field guides that I can't carry them all in my pack: animal tracks, plants, edibles...

I like to see them condensed down to laminated pamphlets, targeted for a specific region to make them smaller. There are a few places that sell such things.

[SabreDave 0]

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Never seen anything like it. Where do they grow? Can you eat them?

Did these clowns actually edit your sig line?!!

SabreDave