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03 Jul 2017, 1:51 am

I can understand Seaweed's fascination with mushrooms, I like mushrooms too, don't know much about them though.

Haha, now that I think of it, I would give Seaweed a beautiful bunch of mushrooms instead of flowers. 8)

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03 Jul 2017, 11:41 am

Muziek wrote:
I can understand Seaweed's fascination with mushrooms, I like mushrooms too, don't know much about them though.

Haha, now that I think of it, I would give Seaweed a beautiful bunch of mushrooms instead of flowers. 8)

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oh muziek, i'm blushing



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03 Jul 2017, 12:01 pm

Muziek wrote:
I can understand Seaweed's fascination with mushrooms, I like mushrooms too, don't know much about them though.

Haha, now that I think of it, I would give Seaweed a beautiful bunch of mushrooms instead of flowers. 8)

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...that's known colloquially as Lion's Mane. Of the human cultivatable varieties, that's about the hardest to fruit and one of the best tasting.



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03 Jul 2017, 12:07 pm

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Hot and humid for the last couple of days, so this afternoon ... the first yellow slime mold of the season appeared on a local garden bed. :D

I don't think there's a brighter yellow in nature.

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I saw one that color coming out of a stump. It looked like it had the texture of tacky school glue, and it got darker with exposure to the sun.


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03 Jul 2017, 1:39 pm

^Speaking of glue, there's foam filling in cracks at my friend's house, but it's not fungi. It's 'filling in holes' foam.


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03 Jul 2017, 1:46 pm

Maybe I found a public art installation by Seaweed. I'll look for a plaque.


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03 Jul 2017, 2:37 pm

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Yes indeed, that Hericium erinaceus -- also called Hedgehog Fungus and Old Man's Beard. Very dramatic. In all the time I've spent outside, I've only seen one in full "flower" like that. I must just not be hitting the right conditions.

Here's a gallery of them:
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1238& ... +erinaceus


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03 Jul 2017, 3:02 pm

Kuraudo7777 wrote:
^Speaking of glue, there's foam filling in cracks at my friend's house, but it's not fungi. It's 'filling in holes' foam.


that kind of foam is useful for lots of sculptural applications as well as hole filling.

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I saw one that color coming out of a stump. It looked like it had the texture of tacky school glue, and it got darker with exposure to the sun.


but nope definitely not a seaweed original. the darkening is indication that the body was preparing to release its spores.



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03 Jul 2017, 6:54 pm

I took the magic kind, three times in '87, big mistake.

Each time everything started off just tickety boo, but ended up like a scene from Hellraiser.

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03 Jul 2017, 6:55 pm

^^^It looks like a very overgrown wizard's beard to me.


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03 Jul 2017, 7:49 pm

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^^^It looks like a very overgrown wizard's beard to me.

Yes, we can also name it the Wizard's Beard Mushroom. :D

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03 Jul 2017, 8:04 pm

^Yeah! The scientific name could be Magnus Gandalfius Berdius. 8)


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10 Jul 2017, 7:50 pm

Lots of Russula popping up after a day of rain. Not sure of the species.

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13 Jul 2017, 7:28 pm

Lots of rain the last couple of days, and now little puffballs are popping up on the lawns. :D

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14 Jul 2017, 11:18 am

^Very cute. Are the eat-able?


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14 Jul 2017, 11:51 am

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^Very cute. Are the eat-able?

I don't know about the little ones, but I understand the giant ones are.

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