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Undertoad 08-12-2007 01:24 PM
August 12, 2007: Big-ass mushroom
 
http://cellar.org/2007/bigassmushroom.jpg

As IotD has always been a cataloguer of big-ass food:

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A more than 20-kilo (41-lb) mushroom has been picked in a forest in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas, university officials said Tuesday.

The white mushroom, macrocybe titans, measured a towering 70 cm (27 in) tall, was found near Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, according to the Southern Border University Center.

yesman065 08-12-2007 02:03 PM
Wow - micology is one of my most favored hobbies. I have seen a lot of oddly shaped and/or colored mushrooms in my day, but that thing is outrageously huge!

freshnesschronic 08-12-2007 02:41 PM
If you ate that mushroom your whole world would become the Smurfs or something like that.

DanaC 08-12-2007 02:46 PM
Where's the hookah smoking caterpillar? There has to be a hookah smokin' caterpillar with a mushroom like that!

xoxoxoBruce 08-12-2007 03:18 PM
The Chiapas farmer that found it has been gathering these mushrooms for some time, trying to figure out how to infuse the super size gene into his pot plants

Cloud 08-12-2007 05:57 PM
but I gather it's supposed to grow big, hence the appellation, "titans"?

Cloud 08-12-2007 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 374139)
Where's the hookah smoking caterpillar? There has to be a hookah smokin' caterpillar with a mushroom like that!

ooh, definitely!

lumberjim 08-12-2007 06:01 PM
Crimini!!!

Fa- 08-12-2007 06:24 PM
Its a trap!

cant you all see?? its a tiny little man! that white thing at the bottom edge of the picture is a thimble!

Gravdigr 08-12-2007 06:36 PM
mmmmm...shroooooooooooooooooooooooooms:thankyou:

wolf 08-13-2007 01:52 AM
I can't tolerate the fungus. It ranks slightly lower on my worst foods list than coconut, which is known to cause projectile vomiting.

There is no danger of me offering to eat this IOTD.

JuancoRocks 08-13-2007 02:54 AM
Big Canopy Mushroom
 

There's a fungus among us.....And it's bent on taking over the world!

Griff 08-13-2007 06:21 AM
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Originally Posted by JuancoRocks (Post 374286)
There's a fungus among us.....And it's bent on taking over the world!
It has competition.

barefoot serpent 08-13-2007 09:37 AM
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I've seen giant puffballs in Colorado that approach that size. But they don't have the 'stem' part -- they're all 'cap'.

Coign 08-13-2007 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 374308)
It has competition.
From Griff's article:

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Genetically Closer to People

In other research, scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.

Moreover, while humans and most species are divided into only two sexes, mushrooms contain over 36,000 sexes.


Talk about a confusing bar scene at the fungus dating spot.




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