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MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this?
    #1896625 - 09/09/03 12:17 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Here is a photo of a mushroom I found in a local rag.  I've never seen a mushroom this large and I was wondering if any of you might know what the heck it is??  I'm guessing it's edible since the guy appears to be carrying it home!  I'm guessing it'll feed a family of 12!!  :wink:



WOW!

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: TekNut]
    #1896651 - 09/09/03 12:24 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

that would be a big fucking mushroom. that is what that is =D

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: TekNut]
    #1896659 - 09/09/03 12:26 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Wow.....  :loveeyes:
Where are the shroomery veterens to answer this.


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    #1896728 - 09/09/03 12:52 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)


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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: Tremor1127]
    #1896754 - 09/09/03 01:00 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

that's gotta weigh 10 pounds or more!  Talk about a 'Heroic Dose'!!  :nut:

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: TekNut]
    #1897176 - 09/09/03 03:55 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Great Scan, now I will find that newspaper somewhere and get a copy of the image from the news-service since i ma a member of the press.

That is a Termitomyces titanicus grown by termites in a termite mound or outside the mound in certain regions of Africa.

Here are a few more images of such mushrooms Ill have to find and re-scan these into bigger images for you later.

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and to shop you just how big it is, that is a yardstick and you can see through the cap how it extends behind the cap so you know it is big.

There is a great National Geographic "Termitea" film with two great time lapse movies of the termites growing these mushrooms, first underground and then a 2nd film of them bringing the crop above ground to grow even more. They raise them for food and kill all bacteria so only the Termitmuyces grows.

In Mexico it has recently been discovered a termite mound with a different species of termitomyces along with a PSilocybe shroom in their mound.

The termite film also has a giant kumodo Dragon killing a 15 foot cobra to shreads and mongoose and other critters who live and hang out in the termite mounds and the africans who pull the wings off the baby termites and eat their bodies alive with relish, not the kind which goes on hot dogs so do not even asked about thae use of the word. I relish the thought of eating frsh termites and Australian Grubworms. Had once to eat the latter withen our group of shrooms ran into a group of scouts on a survival trip and we all had to grub one down. Totaly disgusting oit was.
Wheres Crocofile Dundee when you need him. I bet Yahoo would hae been serious about that one.

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: mjshroomer]
    #1897392 - 09/09/03 07:11 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

wow.. i bet those kids would have a fun time...

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: HidingInPlainSight]
    #1897404 - 09/09/03 07:20 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

those are not an active species led-z.


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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: canid]
    #1897506 - 09/09/03 08:28 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

oh lol that mushroom those kids with the ruler have looks like a massive cube!

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: HidingInPlainSight]
    #1897573 - 09/09/03 09:06 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

That's cool as hell.

I recently read an article about the largest fungi known to man (which is also the largest organism known to man) although it doesn't have the biggest fruits. The mycelia network a particular Armillaria ostoyae (honey mushroom) in Washington state covers 1500 acres underground and is believed to be somewhere around 2400 years old. The fungus was found by observing a pattern of trees that its mycelium killed.


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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: Ekstaza]
    #1897583 - 09/09/03 09:13 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

mangrove trees grow by rhizomes aswell.
[edit: at least i think it's mangrove...]


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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: canid]
    #1897631 - 09/09/03 09:32 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Some groves of Aspen are known to all one organism sharing a comon root structure, but nothing to date has been measure as large as this most recent honey mushroom discovery.


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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: mjshroomer]
    #1897987 - 09/09/03 11:46 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

MJ,
I found a better photo than the one I posted.  I did a little searching on the photographer and found a much nicer photo.  You can even see the guy is wearing a Doors t-shirt with Jim Morrison on it!  :wink:



Jeffrey Aaronson is the photographer and is obviously world renowned.  He has some very nice work you can check out here:
http://www.olympus.co.jp/jp/events/DITLA/gallery.html

I hope you had a good time on your journeys MJ.  Some of us can only dream of your adventures!  :smile:

Peace,
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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: TekNut]
    #1898008 - 09/09/03 11:53 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Holy mother of god!


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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: TekNut]
    #1898019 - 09/09/03 11:56 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

You gotta wonder what kind of spore production that thing has... and if the spores are normal size or if they're like the size of peas. Imagine printing that mofo... you'd need the hood of a car.

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: Gumby]
    #1898095 - 09/09/03 12:21 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

lol to Gumby :smile:


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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: TekNut]
    #1898098 - 09/09/03 12:22 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Excellent post! This is a very cool mushroom, great info MJ.

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: TekNut]
    #1898144 - 09/09/03 12:45 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Is that an axe in his hand? haha
Chopping down a mushroom.. Timmbeeerrr!


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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: joeshitragpicker]
    #1898214 - 09/09/03 01:03 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Yep, looks like an axe ...  It would have taken him 20 minutes or more to eat through the trunk with his bare teeth!  :eek:

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: TekNut]
    #1898468 - 09/09/03 02:14 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

I read about the termitomyces titanicus,,, a while ago,,, first time I saw a good picture of them.... They grow up through the center of the mound and the mycelium fills the pathways.. or something like that... ??????


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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: nofind_um]
    #1898563 - 09/09/03 02:42 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

They grow deep within the mound to. The Nat. Geo. Video shows them way underground and then they bring them up above ground to contiue with more fruitings for the termites food.

My friend and Colleague from Chulalongkorn Uniersity in Banggkok, Prakitsin Sihanonth has wrtten articles in journals about these Termitomyces mushroom species found in southeast Aia.

Mj./

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: mjshroomer]
    #1898850 - 09/09/03 03:59 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Here's some more info I dug up:

World's oldest "fungus farms"
by Marja H?rk?nen
Pages 41-45

Tropical termites take chewed up plant material to their nests. Being unable to digest cellulose themselves, they make use of assistants. The most evolutionary advanced termite species are fungus farmers. They may use up to one third of the plant material collected by them in a year. Termites are most abundant in savannahs and dry forests. It has been estimated that in the savannahs of Serengeti the termite biomass is equivalent to twice that of the grazing mammals living in the area.

Termite nests do not always have mounds above ground level. Underground there is an extensive network of tunnels which the termites keep clean of litter. Arriving from the ground surface, termites void the plant material accumulated in their stomachs through the anus on to the tunnel walls, where it becomes an ideal substrate for a crop of fungi. The fungal mycelia break down the cellulose and lignin present in the plant debris and the termites then consume the fungi.

Termite fungi (Termitomyces) have become entirely dependent on termites. There are some 30 different species, which are able to grow only if "farmed" by termites. In a functioning nest the insects tend to consume the fungal sporocarps when small. If the nest for some reason or other is abandoned, the fungal mycelia produce these fruiting bodies above ground. The world's largest fungus, Termitomyces titanicus, was scientifically described in Zambia as recently ago as 1980; it's cap may have a diameter of nearly a metre. Local people have known this huge fungus for ages.

Termite fungi are extremely tasty and much sought-after. Many folk tales, beliefs and legends are associated with them. These fungi are believed to have medicinal properties, not only in Africa but also in China, where books about medicines mention Termitomyces albuminosus as strengthening the stomach, improving thought processes, and curing haemorrhoids.



Damn, they taste good and cure hemorrhoids too!!  :laugh: 

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: TekNut]
    #1899861 - 09/09/03 07:35 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Jimmy Carter had hemmorhoids once while President. Saturday night Live did a skit on Jimmy's hemmorhoids.

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: mjshroomer]
    #1899866 - 09/09/03 07:36 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Great story, mj. :wink:

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: Gumby]
    #1901523 - 09/10/03 08:45 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

where would we be without these tales of political rectal ailments... :grin:
keep on shrooming MJ.

thanx all for help and input in this thread. it is verry interesting and i had no idea that there where mushrooms that regularly got as big as these do.


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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: canid]
    #1901636 - 09/10/03 09:41 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

where would we be without these tales of political rectal ailments




That was a medicinal cure for rectal ailments making them also a medicinal mushroom, also good for other medicinal reasons. Buiy the book, "Medicinal Mushrooms."

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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: mjshroomer]
    #1904677 - 09/11/03 08:46 AM (20 years, 6 months ago)

best mushrooms story i ever heard.
thanks to all the contributors for a very interesting read!


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Re: MONSTER Shroom (photo) WTF is this? [Re: lizardking]
    #1906539 - 09/11/03 04:42 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

oops i crapped my pants

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