August 12, 2007: Big-ass mushroom

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

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.

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!

If you ate that mushroom your whole world would become the Smurfs or something like that.

Where's the hookah smoking caterpillar? There has to be a hookah smokin' caterpillar with a mushroom like that!

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

but I gather it's supposed to grow big, hence the appellation, "titans"?

DanaC;374139 wrote:

Where's the hookah smoking caterpillar? There has to be a hookah smokin' caterpillar with a mushroom like that!

ooh, definitely!

Crimini!!!

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!

mmmmm...shroooooooooooooooooooooooooms:thankyou:

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.

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

JuancoRocks;374286 wrote:

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

It has competition.

I've seen giant puffballs in Colorado that approach that size. But they don't have the 'stem' part -- they're all 'cap'.

Griff;374308 wrote:

It has competition.

From Griff's article:

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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One side makes you larger...and one side makes you small...

wolf;374271 wrote:

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.

Wow, we might be twins separated at birth. One of the things about mushrooms is they have no idea what texture to be: crunchy, squishy, soggy...bleh. And the smell of coconut will cause heaving!

But, i did find the mother of all mushrooms (of the variety people around here like to eat, don't ask me what they are) one year while mushroom hunting with my brothers and dad (which is actually fun!) I guess they ate it, i just kept the picture.

I bet he doesnt even smile like that in family photo's.

Finally, an IotD that I would totally eat. :D Grilled mushroom fajitas to feed all my friends!

"Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination"...

DanaC;374139 wrote:

Where's the hookah smoking caterpillar? There has to be a hookah smokin' caterpillar with a mushroom like that!

my first thought was that is some Alice in Wonderland type stuff.

I bet North Korea's leader is eying that and thinking, "Maybe, I'll ask for that in my next round of nuclear talks/concessions." I also bet that the people of North Korea would suffer a lot less if they overthrew their 'leader' than if they had all the mushrooms in the world.

I shall not eat mushrooms...... unless:

They are Psilocybin or in a can of mushroom soup.

Thank God for hyphens.

An IOTD entitled "Big ass mushroom" is one that I just wouldn't be able to view.

Because of net filters or personal distaste?

Not sure I'd want to see an "ass mushroom". Then again, I'm sure I'd go look anyway...

That's what I was hoping although some net filters are very, very tight.