Thursday, October 25, 2012

Skunked and Lobstered

I went into the woods today looking for Chanterelle mushrooms. On that mission I was skunked.

However, I did find two specimens of very large, bright orange mushrooms, which I did not keep, but identified just now as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomyces_lactifluorum

A parasitic fungus whose host is.....fungus! What will they think of next?

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