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  • 06-07-2006 3:30pm
    #1
    hshortt
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    I found this yesterday and had to go back for a photo! Some kind of Fungus or a Mushroom or something?? Nice shape to it, it kind of looks like a huge butterfly as you approch it.


Comments

  • #2
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,439 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Eat it :D


  • #3
    hshortt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭hshortt


    Another shot


  • #4
    hshortt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭hshortt


    Last one.


  • #5
    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    it's called a bird-trout, half dog and half imagination.


  • #6
    Keyzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    I'd make a nice hat out of it...
    Or smoke it...


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  • #7
    hshortt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭hshortt


    xzanti wrote:
    Eat it :D
    Don't think it's one of *them*

    Cheers


  • #8
    Villain
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    Its a type of fungus, probably: Chicken of the Woods or Sulphur Shelf (Laetiporus sulphureus)


  • #9
    hshortt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭hshortt


    One more shot, phone camera showing my book beside it for judging the size.


  • #10
    Ruu_Old
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    Yeah some sort of fungus.


  • #11
    Celticfire
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    polyporus sulphureus

    Not harmful and fairly common


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  • #12
    monkeyfudge
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    It's clearly the vanguard of an alien invasion force.


  • #13
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,225 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    monkeyfudge wrote:
    It's clearly the vanguard of an alien invasion force.
    OMG!!!!!!!!

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #14
    fuzzywiggle
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    it's the head of a big brown flower


  • #15
    Giruilla
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    It's a man-bear pig!


  • #16
    Harbour_boy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Harbour_boy


    Some of the funniest returns I've seen, v good.
    I think its called a Dryads Saddle. I dont think it will kill you (if you eat it for all those just about to start typing) but I dont think it would be any good.


  • #17
    Car Mad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭Car Mad


    honestly have people anything better to be doing.we all know its a gone off dinner :)


  • #18
    r3nu4l
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    Definitely a some kind of bracket fungus but almost impossible to correctly identify the species without seeing the spores through a microscope.


  • #19
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Who dug this thread up? I'm sure the fungus has evolved some what since that photo was taken back in July.


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