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That would make for a fun evening 8)
Obviously photoshopped. :D
No kidding. Who would wear a Doors t-shirt out there??
-TM
I really doubt that is a modified photograph. That is one of those termite mound mushrooms (genus Termitomyces) and they can get huge, though that is the biggest one I have ever seen.
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Termitomyces titanicus can have a cap diameter of 1 meter.
Who would wear a Doors t-shirt anywhere?
Quote from: "JRL"Who would wear a Doors t-shirt anywhere?
what would you prefer?
Ween.
Screaming Spanish Walter and the Oak Buzz
That mushroom is tiny, anyway. Here is a picture of me with a much bigger mushroom.
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What is this Photoshop thing yall are talking about??
-TM
Quote from: "TroutMask"No kidding. Who would wear a Doors t-shirt out there??
-TM
perhaps a tripper who has connections with the western world?
Quote from: "JRL"Screaming Spanish Walter and the Oak Buzz
who the hell are they?
Quote from: "spark"Quote from: "TroutMask"No kidding. Who would wear a Doors t-shirt out there??
-TM
perhaps a tripper who has connections with the western world?
Quote from: "JRL"Screaming Spanish Walter and the Oak Buzz
who the hell are they?
Trippers with connections.....
I still think a nice, plaid button-down would be better in that area. Now, further down the road is a nice little restaurant where I might switch into a Doors t-shirt. But then you'd have to go back to the button-down when you finished eating. Life is hard wherever that is.
-TM
That is a real termite mushroom. Here is a photo i took of it in a newpapersomewhere away form my home.
I had a whole series opf giant shrooms in a folder on my computer and cannot for the life of me find it.
Here are four such images of large shrooms. I have more, including giant lepiotas I photographed in Thailand. Do not know where the folder is.
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Another Termite mushroom.
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This one was grown inn a lab in Suisse.
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And this here is a large Reeshi Mushroom
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I would like to mention that There is a great national Geographic videotape of the termites and they have two time l;apse photos of the termitesd preparing their shroom garden and growing the mushrooms and then later moving the mycelia above ground and growing them outside the mound.
It also shows a Komono dragon killing a 15-foot cobra, the African Chief who owns the mounds with his family collecting the termites and eating them minus their wings, the mongooses who share the mound with the termites and other related factors of a termite mound, the jackals who come and try to catch the mongooses, etc.
My colleague in Thailand has written several papers on this mushroom species publiished in scholarly journals and one more interesting footnote to this post is that there is a colony of termites in mexico which grow this cool edible mushroomm and also grow along side of it a species of hallucinogenic psilocybian mushroom.
boomer2
So the Doors t-shirt wasn't Photoshopped in afterall. I feel silly.
-TM
From the Hidden History of Rock and Roll by Roy G Biv:
"Screaming Spanish Walter and the Oak Buzz rose from the ashes of the Azzo Buzzo Band like some demented phoenix with lopsided wings only to crash and burn after one legendary show at a church coffee house in Northern California late in 1969. Spanish Walter aka George Schrub aka George Stump aka Dave Lippman continues to tour the world with his pithy political satire.
The Oak Buzz has never been heard from again."
There's an underground mushroom in oregon that is the size of several large football fields, can you imagine?
Hi Roach, yes there are several underground shrooms, just large matts of mycelia growing underground. But I only consider shrooms above ground to be shrooms. And of course truffles. In oregon on the coast, matsutake grow underground around pines growing in sandy areas.
But yes, there are aseveral underground large shroom masses. I think even Michigan has one or Minnesota. Washington has one.
I ahve articles somewher ein my filing cabinets, but am not sure where.
And then there are giant puff balls, some seighed as much as 800 pounds in Europe and many 15-30 pounds or more.
boomer2
mmmmm, puffballs.....
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I am pretty sure the C02 plays a role in stem size though. So it is about 02/C02 ratios and genetics and substrate and light. [/i]
Bob Harris, in his book, Growing Wild Mushrooms talks of the ten inch (picture included) Psilocybe cubensis found in Texas.
boomer2