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Vindian said:
Holy fuck, dude. I think that one takes the cake. totally crazy shit, awesome in an eerie way. just. wow.

I wonder if a species will show up that affects humans..

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Brennus said:
Not one of my favorites, but Geomyces destructans is interesting. It preys on bats.

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/may2009.html

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Hydnellum peckii

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lol I was thinking the same thing... that is bad ass...  imagine growing that in captivity....  it would be crazy to throw like 6000 ants in a little farm and watching it all go down...  some of the other species have a much cooler look to them to.

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That was my first reaction on seeing them also!  Apparently they are extremely rare, known from only two localities, and that pic is the the first (and perhaps only) color photograph of them.

http://www.entoloma.nl/html/psflocculosa.html

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A very cool, extra frosty member of the psilocybe genus   Very little info on these guys that I have found, mostly just a pic and a name. 

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where are those from anyways???!!! very cool looking mushroom!

its so hard to say, cordyceps are intriguing, the glowing ones are mindblowing , all the interesting stinkhorns, the werrora.......I dont know which is the best.

heres 2 nice Helvallas.

and the schizophyllum s are crazy too! not just in the name but they have 28000 different sexes and can even form fruitbodies in your friggin nasal cavities!!

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I've been wanting to see pictures of Psathyrella aquatica since I read about it on Galileo. I unfortunately didn't have access to the article. I think it was in Mycologia. Thanks for the epic win.

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its from oregon. you can find mushrooms anywhere there. this proves it. underwater fruiters are a new one for me.

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Not one of my favorites, but Geomyces destructans is interesting. It preys on bats.

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/may2009.html

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  There is also a conspiracy theory to the white nose bat syndrome. That Monstanto designed it and sprayed a few chemtrail planes over the area, designed it to effect only bats specifically. So that the mosquito population will rise and therefore disease will spread much faster.

  I dont' necissarily say this is true but it is totally a possibility seeing as how Monsanto is the one of the most evil corporations on the planet.

  I know they or someone already engineered this stuff to affect marijuana plants called white mold. That is just what some ppl told me that know growers. That it was specifically designed to attack and kill marijuana plants, 2 summers ago we had black/brownish spots on all the leaves on the trees in this area.

when i discussed it with a very informed person on marijuana cultivations, he said yes they believed the spots on the leaves on normal trees were actually a side effect caused by the spraying of this white mold to affect marijuana.

  so the white nose bat fungi problem may be the most interesting fungus currently, i'd love to hear what Paul Stamets would have to say on this conspiracy theory. I'm sure he wouldn't say much in a conference because he works with the government sometimes but he may be able to find out where it comes from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nose_syndrome


poor little bats, this makes me sad, i love bats. they kill mosquitos which we all hate.

"Bats are one of nature's most efficient and eco-friendly methods of keeping mosquito populations under control. Just one bat can eat more than 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour"

white nose bat syndrome has killed over a million bats since 2006.
"An informational video, produced by Mark Spaulding of Howe Caverns, about the effects of White Nose Bat Syndrome."

I really hope someone figures out how to save the bats soon before we are overrun by mosquitos.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites

"The genus Prototaxites describes terrestrial organisms known only from fossils dating from the Silu-Devonian, approximately 420 to 370 million years ago. Prototaxites formed large trunk-like structures up to 1 metre (3 ft) wide, reaching 8 metres (26 ft) in height."

"In 2007, isotopic analyses by a team including Hueber and Kevin Boyce of the University of Chicago[1]  concluded that Prototaxites was a giant fungus."



so now the question is, did all life on this planet come from fungi?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites

"The genus Prototaxites describes terrestrial organisms known only from fossils dating from the Silu-Devonian, approximately 420 to 370 million years ago. Prototaxites formed large trunk-like structures up to 1 metre (3 ft) wide, reaching 8 metres (26 ft) in height."

"In 2007, isotopic analyses by a team including Hueber and Kevin Boyce of the University of Chicago[1]  concluded that Prototaxites was a giant fungus."



so now the question is, did all life on this planet come from fungi?

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