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Old 08-12-2007, 01:24 PM   #1
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August 12, 2007: Big-ass mushroom



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.
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Old 08-12-2007, 02:03 PM   #2
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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!
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Old 08-12-2007, 02:41 PM   #3
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If you ate that mushroom your whole world would become the Smurfs or something like that.
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Old 08-12-2007, 02:46 PM   #4
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Where's the hookah smoking caterpillar? There has to be a hookah smokin' caterpillar with a mushroom like that!
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Old 08-12-2007, 03:18 PM   #5
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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
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Old 08-12-2007, 05:57 PM   #6
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but I gather it's supposed to grow big, hence the appellation, "titans"?
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Old 08-12-2007, 05:57 PM   #7
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Where's the hookah smoking caterpillar? There has to be a hookah smokin' caterpillar with a mushroom like that!

ooh, definitely!
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Old 08-12-2007, 06:01 PM   #8
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Old 08-12-2007, 06:24 PM   #9
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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!
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Old 08-12-2007, 06:36 PM   #10
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mmmmm...shroooooooooooooooooooooooooms
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Old 08-13-2007, 01:52 AM   #11
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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.
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Old 08-13-2007, 02:54 AM   #12
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Big Canopy Mushroom


There's a fungus among us.....And it's bent on taking over the world!
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Old 08-13-2007, 06:21 AM   #13
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There's a fungus among us.....And it's bent on taking over the world!
It has competition.
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Old 08-13-2007, 09:37 AM   #14
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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'.
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Old 08-13-2007, 09:48 AM   #15
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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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