A rather large mushroom...

[spark]

[weed.of.change]

That would make for a fun evening  

[neonaut]

Obviously photoshopped.

[TroutMask]

No kidding. Who would wear a Doors t-shirt out there??

-TM

[EA-1306]

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.

http://www.u-blog.net/COUFFINBAGAY/img/ ... myces2.jpg
http://www.mycolog.com/18-50_Termitomyces.jpg

Termitomyces titanicus can have a cap diameter of 1 meter.

[JRL]

Who would wear a Doors t-shirt anywhere?

[spark]

Who would wear a Doors t-shirt anywhere?

what would you prefer?

[TroutMask]

Ween.

[JRL]

Screaming Spanish Walter and the Oak Buzz

[TroutMask]

That mushroom is tiny, anyway. Here is a picture of me with a much bigger mushroom.



What is this Photoshop thing yall are talking about??

-TM

[spark]

No kidding. Who would wear a Doors t-shirt out there??

-TM

perhaps a tripper who has connections with the western world?

Screaming Spanish Walter and the Oak Buzz

who the hell are they?

[JRL]

No kidding. Who would wear a Doors t-shirt out there??

-TM

perhaps a tripper who has connections with the western world?

Screaming Spanish Walter and the Oak Buzz

who the hell are they?

Trippers with connections.....

[TroutMask]

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

[boomer2]

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.



Another Termite mushroom.



This one was grown inn a lab in Suisse.



And this here is a large Reeshi Mushroom



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

[TroutMask]

So the Doors t-shirt wasn't Photoshopped in afterall. I feel silly.

-TM