The Blood Mushroom

[chattanova]

http://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/9/10/2/f_Mushroom100m_6708090.jpg

http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/9/10/2/f_Mushroom100m_a27a834.jpg

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2231.html?theme=light

Bleeding Tooth Fungus ??

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISCE2002/hpeckii.htm

[lilly555]

Hmm, looks like the pastry/jelly doughnut mushroom. mmmm

[chattanova]

Hmm, looks like the pastry/jelly doughnut mushroom. mmmm

lol It looks freaking good actually:D

[sunyatta60]

Is it edible?

[tinmenace]

Wow! How beautiful!

Great find!

[chattanova]

Is it edible?

Hehe, I wouldn't bet on that..

[real6]

Damn it looks tasty!!!

Eat it and i bet you it kills about 10 Horses!!!

[razed1]

dare to eat it??? that shit looks like it would rock your world



but interestingly enough, i have heard that each mushrooom you eat, you are supposed to read the thread between each, each mushroom is a god telling you somehting, will you listen?

[chattanova]

This unusual fungus appeared overnight in my backyard on Dec. 5, 2008.

--'hrtbeat7'

http://img02.picoodle.com/img/img02/3/2/1/f_unusualfungm_6375b46.jpg

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2859.html?theme=light

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[sillystringmath]

Wow:eek:

[measle_weasel]

http://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/9/10/2/f_Mushroom100m_6708090.jpg

http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/9/10/2/f_Mushroom100m_a27a834.jpg

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2231.html?theme=light

Bleeding Tooth Fungus ??

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISCE2002/hpeckii.htm

That looks awesome

[octopusrex]

Yum yum.

[chattanova]

Another Weird Mushroom

http://img29.picoodle.com/img/img29/2/5/18/kennet/f_CrazyMushrom_6cda281.jpg

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/photo/photo-of-the-day

[rhydra]

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/4783/mushrooms.jpg

[faerie_boy_charli]

As a writer it makes me want to add a story to it -- like this is a rare mushroom that sorcerers search high and low for because it has the magical ability to give strength to those who lose a lot of blood in battle.

[rhydra]

There are millions near where I live, pity I'm not into them!

[universalmind]

loooove mushrooms, got some really good ones at 10K festi last summer. Ive always preferred mush over syd. :D

[chattanova]

Giant 'meat-eating' plant found

http://img34.imagefra.me/img/img34/2/8/13/kennet/f_6ck1vb9ems0m_1516181.jpg
The newly discovered giant pitcher (Nepenthes attenboroughii)

A new species of giant carnivorous plant has been discovered in the highlands of the central Philippines.

The pitcher plant is among the largest of all pitchers and is so big that it can catch rats as well as insects in its leafy trap.

During the same expedition, botanists also came across strange pink ferns and blue mushrooms they could not identify.

The botanists have named the pitcher plant after British natural history broadcaster David Attenborough.

They published details of the discovery in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society earlier this year.

Word that this new species of pitcher plant existed initially came from two Christian missionaries who in 2000 attempted to scale Mount Victoria, a rarely visited peak in central Palawan in the Philippines.

With little preparation, the missionaries attempted to climb the mountain but became lost for 13 days before being rescued from the slopes.

On their return, they described seeing a large carnivorous pitcher plant.

That pricked the interest of natural history explorer Stewart McPherson of Red Fern Natural History Productions based in Poole, Dorset, UK and independent botanist Alastair Robinson, formerly of the University of Cambridge, UK and Volker Heinrich, of Bukidnon Province, the Philippines.

http://img39.imagefra.me/img/img39/2/8/13/kennet/f_6ck1vb9fvmmm_21fccc6.jpg
Big enough to drown a rat

All three are pitcher plant experts, having travelled to remote locations in the search for new species.

So in 2007, they set off on a two-month expedition to the Philippines, which included an attempt at scaling Mount Victoria to find this exotic new plant.

Accompanied by three guides, the team hiked through lowland forest, finding large stands of a pitcher plant known to science called Nepenthes philippinensis, as well as strange pink ferns and blue mushrooms which they could not identify.

As they closed in on the summit, the forest thinned until eventually they were walking among scrub and large boulders

"At around 1,600 metres above sea level, we suddenly saw one great pitcher plant, then a second, then many more," McPherson recounts.

"It was immediately apparent that the plant we had found was not a known species."

http://img39.imagefra.me/img/img39/2/8/13/kennet/f_7b8ce1kvdvom_6006fe8.jpg
The summit of Mount Victoria appears through the clouds

Pitcher plants are carnivorous. Carnivorous plants come in many forms, and are known to have independently evolved at least six separate times. While some have sticky surfaces that act like flypaper, others like the Venus fly trap are snap traps, closing their leaves around their prey.

Pitchers create tube-like leaf structures into which insects and other small animals tumble and become trapped.

The team has placed type specimens of the new species in the herbarium of the Palawan State University, and have named the plant Nepenthes attenboroughii after broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough.

"The plant is among the largest of all carnivorous plant species and produces spectacular traps as large as other species which catch not only insects, but also rodents as large as rats," says McPherson.

http://img26.imagefra.me/img/img26/2/8/13/kennet/f_57pu9ha39m_c974503.jpg
Unidentified blue fungi

The pitcher plant does not appear to grow in large numbers, but McPherson hopes the remote, inaccessible mountain-top location, which has only been climbed a handful of times, will help prevent poachers from reaching it.

During the expedition, the team also encountered another pitcher, Nepenthes deaniana, which had not been seen in the wild for 100 years. The only known existing specimens of the species were lost in a herbarium fire in 1945.

On the way down the mountain, the team also came across a striking new species of sundew, a type of sticky trap plant, which they are in the process of formally describing.

Thought to be a member of the genus Drosera, the sundew produces striking large, semi-erect leaves which form a globe of blood red foliage.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8195000/8195029.stm

[lady_oblivion]

fungi are so coool, as they come in so many shapes, sizes and colours. Op that one looks either hihgly dangerous and poisonous or highly psychadelic. Never seen onelike tat before, but it does look like someones squeezed and jam dounut lol

[jp13]

I wonder what the giant pitcher plants survive on if they are so high up?

[lady_oblivion]

big big birds LOL. You know thats reminded me of must no, where you have to save the parrot thingy from the very big pitcher plant LOL. Alsways wanted to grow some of those(just the mini ones lol)

[redskywalker]

That looks awesome

lol these do look so tasty. strawberry sauce on strawberry blancmange springs to mind.:D

[decim]

The photograph shows a very early stage in the developent of Bleeding Tooth. The young fruitbody is spongy and characteristically exudes droplets of red fluid. Later the fruitbody becomes tougher and teeth develop on the underside. This common and widespread species fruits under conifers.

Description

Caps are flat to slightly depressed, 5-15 cm across, felty to woolly, dark brown at the centre, changing to salmon-pink at margin and exuding blood-red droplets when young. The teeth are salmon-pink, ageing brown and up to 4 mm long. The stalks are up to 8 cm tall and velvety. The flesh is dingy brown with a peppery taste. Widespread and not uncommon, it fruits on the ground under conifers. Not edible.

http://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/9/10/2/f_Mushroom100m_6708090.jpg

http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/9/10/2/f_Mushroom100m_a27a834.jpg

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2231.html?theme=light

Bleeding Tooth Fungus ??

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISCE2002/hpeckii.htm

[delamo1999]

Hi Chattanova. Where did you find out about the pitcher plant? I have often wondered about canivorous plants, but the only one that I was aware about was the Venus Fly Trap variety. My instinct tells me that there are other carnivorous varieties living on the planet but they are living in areas not accessible to most people.

:)

[lady_oblivion]

heres a link for you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivorous_plant. Theyre are quite a few types truely amazing thinbgs if not a little odd.

[measle_weasel]

Giant 'meat-eating' plant found

Very good article again, chat

[the seeker]

How do they know it is peppery?

"I don't want to try it -- you try it."

"Hey, intern. Try this and tell me what it tastes like."

[white_wave]

Hi Chattanova. Where did you find out about the pitcher plant? I have often wondered about canivorous plants, but the only one that I was aware about was the Venus Fly Trap variety. My instinct tells me that there are other carnivorous varieties living on the planet but they are living in areas not accessible to most people.

:)





dont quote me on this, but ive heard from a random telly program that carniverous plants are only native to a part of arizona , near where a meteor hit..... i'm now doubting that because these plants are from the phillipenes..... maybe near another impact site???

i know these plants are grown in other parts of the world, but i thaught they meant that they had been exported, if you know what i mean :o

by the way the t.v show was 'the eggheads' in the uk :rolleyes:

[decim]

'they' say Amanita Muscaria is non edible.

'they' lie.

How do they know it is peppery?

"I don't want to try it -- you try it."

"Hey, intern. Try this and tell me what it tastes like."

[chattanova]

Weird Fungus (clathrus columnatus)

http://img37.imagefra.me/img/img37/1/12/4/f_17x5ael6vj0m_380e13f.jpg


Frequently, these strange mushrooms pop up quite literally overnight in the mulch around the trees here. Having been intrigued with other photos of strange fungi on the Coast website, I thought the Coast listeners would enjoy seeing this one. It's the clathrus columnatus, also known as the "Column Stinkhorn."

--Wally

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/photo#

[serpent_slayer_garuda]

They are from space, not of this earth. Eat one and it will take you there.

[energi]

Naturally growing candy/cakes, yummie :D

[yass]

That's very interesting.

[octopusrex]

I usually try shrooms in the wild with the tip of my tounge. Depending on the flavor, I know if I will get sick eating them or not, but more importantly, if they contain psylocibin or not! Psylocibin automatically makes my jaw muscles contract, even in extremely low 'tasting' dosage.

[michael_mac]

They are from space, not of this earth. Eat one and it will take you there.

Great photos of those cake shop mushrooms. But I bet if you ate one you would end up in space: dead!

[snakesnladders]

JELLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YUM YUM>>>>>

either that or a creature from another world.

id give it a go. gotta be majic doesnt it?

[chattanova]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFPtXpWNPOk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFPtXpWNPOk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Np0VdLthhQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Np0VdLthhQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3bMDr-WLCs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3bMDr-WLCs&feature=related

[chattanova]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puDkLFcCZyI&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puDkLFcCZyI&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHaWu2rcP94&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHaWu2rcP94&feature=channel

:):):)