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13/05/2008, 15:36 Weedon Joined on 23/08/2004 Laval (53) Posts 1,254 Weird toadstool Anybody know what this strange toadstool is?     Report

13/05/2008, 15:45 Cat Joined on 21/01/2005 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 3,192 Re: Weird toadstool Might it be a Mitrophora semilibera ? Cathy Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...    Report

13/05/2008, 16:02 John Martin BRADLEY Joined on 30/04/2008 Cape Town Posts 86 Re: Weird toadstool Looks like a pair of secateurs to me ... JohnMartin www.dontmovetofrance.co.uk    Report

13/05/2008, 16:19 Clair Joined on 23/08/2004 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot (46) Posts 7,246 Re: Weird toadstool  John Martin BRADLEY wrote: Looks like a pair of secateurs to me ... True, and it won't grow because it's planted the wrong way up... needs a deeper hole too... Clair, a Real Virtual French Person    Report

13/05/2008, 16:22 Weedon Joined on 23/08/2004 Laval (53) Posts 1,254 Re: Weird toadstool   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?    Report

13/05/2008, 17:04 Cat Joined on 21/01/2005 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 3,192 Re: Weird toadstool 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 Cathy Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...    Report

13/05/2008, 17:15 Pixie Toadstool Joined on 11/09/2007 Manche/Hampshire Posts 71 Re: Weird toadstool 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    Report

13/05/2008, 17:22 Cat Joined on 21/01/2005 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 3,192 Re: Weird toadstool Ooh err, I've just done a google image search on stinkhorn.  How rude Cathy Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...    Report

13/05/2008, 18:16 Weedon Joined on 23/08/2004 Laval (53) Posts 1,254 Re: Weird toadstool 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 one I shall keep watch on the round ones and let you know if something emerges.    Report

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