Weird toadstool

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Weird toadstool


Weedon 13/05/2008, 15:36

Anybody know what this strange toadstool is? 

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Cat 13/05/2008, 15:45
Might it be a Mitrophora semilibera ?

Cathy



Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

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John Martin BRADLEY 13/05/2008, 16:02
Looks like a pair of secateurs to me ... Smile [:)]



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Clair 13/05/2008, 16:19
 John Martin BRADLEY wrote:
Looks like a pair of secateurs to me ... Smile [:)]
True, and it won't grow because it's planted the wrong way up... needs a deeper hole too...

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Weedon 13/05/2008, 16:22

Big Smile [:D]Big Smile [:D]  So that's where they are, who left them there?

 

Well done Cat, looks like the one doesn't it?  I know it says inedible, but if it was, which end would I start from?

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Cat 13/05/2008, 17:04

If it is one, some people (including me) do eat them, and say they're delicious, but Roger's says otherwise and they're the experts.  In my neck of the woods they call them morillons, or black morilles. I'd never eat a mushroom on the recommendation of someone on a forum who'd only seen a photo though.

As for the the dudie in your photo, I'd definitely avoid the pointy end, could do yourself a mischief Wink [;-)]


Cathy



Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

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Pixie Toadstool 13/05/2008, 17:15
It's not a black morel but a stinkhorn and they are only edible when they are egg shaped:  i.e. before the phallic bit emerges.

They do really stink though don't they?  This is to attract flies which disperse the spores.

Pix Wink [;-)]

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Cat 13/05/2008, 17:22
Ooh err, I've just done a google image search on stinkhorn.  How rude Blush [:$]

Cathy



Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

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Weedon 13/05/2008, 18:16

You knew I would didn't you?  My mum would definately be shocked.  Me too as I have led a very sheltered life.

Nearby at the base of an oak tree in my garden is a cluster of white, round-shaped thingys.  I did pull one of them out of the ground to have a look at it, I can only describe it as........sort of......goes with the other oneBlink [blink]

I shall keep watch on the round ones and let you know if something emerges.

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