toni
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject: What kind of Fungi are these????? |
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I almost didn't post these pictures because of their.....uuuummmmmm, shape. 
There are just these two out there that I have found.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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I believe you've found a Phallus impudicus or one closely related to it, Toni. They're weird and they stink.
Edit: Found it on Wikipedia too.
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toni
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Droopy, I just knew they would have a name like that 
Other than drawing flies and stinking so they harm the garden in anyway? I am thinking I need to start pulling them up so I won't have a yard filled with them.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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Since they're edible I assume they won't harm anything growing in your garden. I remove fungi from the acid-soil borders all the time. They're not as graphic as yours, though. They look more like dried-up brain, and they're fairly poisonous too. Morels or Gyromitra esculenta I think they're called. The Finnish eat them, but they're nuts anyway. 
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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Ha, what a name - most fitting, apparently. Fungi are such interesting things, some of the shapes boggle me.
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