Tuesday, May 2, 2023

April Showers Bring...

 


Weird alien life formers growing on a manure pile. Look at this charmer! Translucent with odd vein like things running over the surface... like an alien skull! The almost constant moisture we've experienced has erupted into myriad colorful and exotic mushrooms.


How about these frilly positively Baroque specimens? They look like the Flying Nuns head gear! They sprang up over night and this is on rather fresh manure... not even composted.


Look at this one! Appears to almost have testicles off to the right. This beauty is really lubricious; looks nasty and shiny.

Look at the sheer variety of forms. Not sure what any of these individuals are but my guess is the're pretty poisonous. And who wants to eat something off the manure pile!?!! (But after the natto, maybe eating this would be preferable...) (*1)


And then there's Bob's lunch! No, not plucked from the compost/manure pile but from spores installed in his mushroom logs. They love the damp weather!


(*1) That last mushroom seems maybe to be a "Shaggy Ink Cap" or Coprinus comatus. We looked in a book...





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