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G-MAS
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G-MAS
6 years ago

Looks a little like popcorn.strange

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  G-MAS

Left over yellow snow?

Jorge Cervantes
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Jorge Cervantes
6 years ago

A bic lighter and some crack cocaine organically grown.

None
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None
6 years ago

Great stuff foam

DaPisan
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DaPisan
6 years ago

Why? Is there a story?

SourTangant
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SourTangant
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I appreciate the story Kym!! I love all of the beauty this area offers from big to small to tiny. Thank you for sharing & I can honestly say that I learned something new today!

Jack Hole
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Jack Hole
6 years ago

It’s a monotropa, a parasitic plant that feeds on fungi because it lacks chlorophyll to photosynthesize. You find them most commonly during the spring in dark forest environments. Kind of rare, so it’s a cool find. PhD, please!

hmm
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hmm
6 years ago
Reply to  Jack Hole

We have three biology degrees in our home, including one in botany, and we agree with you.

Thinking allowed
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Thinking allowed
6 years ago

Lol I thought Indian Pipes just emerging. Now I know the official name. If you find one, you tend to find others in the same area.

BTW this is the best year I’ve seen for Spring mushrooms in years. All this wet is good for something.

Robin
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Robin
6 years ago

It’s a holoparasite in the Heath & Heather family, Ericaceae. Either, Pityopus californicus, CA pine foot, or Pleuricospora fimbriolata; you’ll have to wait til it flowers to tell the difference (check out the stamens). Both species are tapped into a host via a fungus connection underground. The gnome plant, Hemitomes congestum, is also in this group of plants, but it tends to be more rosey to pink in color.

Robin
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Robin
6 years ago

I think the Monotropa is more white when it’s emerging. You’ll be able to tell soon because the Monotropa will grow an obvious upright stem with nodding flowers well above ground level. The others have flowers very low to the ground because their stem is very short.

John
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John
6 years ago

What did it taste like?

Honeydew Bridge C.H.U.M.P.
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Honeydew Bridge C.H.U.M.P.
6 years ago

The old wives tale on these pipes are that when marijuana growers eat them along with all the mushrooms within 100 feet-

Their crops will surpass anything ever grown in weight and quality.

Something for all you marijuana growers to consider in a declining market, it could possibly give you that needed edge on all the other growers.

Smiles
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Smiles
6 years ago

Smoke it and find out.

Mattroll bridge
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Mattroll bridge
6 years ago
Reply to  Smiles

Chump smoked it,,, look what happened.

Roy
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Roy
6 years ago

Back in the 60’s when I was trying to not get drafted the army shrink asked me what drugs I took. I told him I took whatever people gave me. Not sure I’d take that though.

Crime stopper
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Crime stopper
6 years ago

A perfect specimen of Blondis poopitis

Thorn
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Thorn
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I’ve seen them with a Pink Shade to them on spots around Black Lassic

hmm
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hmm
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

It is not a fungus, it is a vascular plant. It lacks chlorophyll because it gets it food from fungi, which it parasitizes.

Ezra
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Ezra
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

That’s beautiful..

Kim Crowell
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Kim Crowell
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

That’s beautiful. I love the beauty nature has to offer to us.

Seamus
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Seamus
6 years ago

There is a fungus among us.

Thinking allowed
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Thinking allowed
6 years ago

I think robin got it with California Pinefoot.

Ranger D Danger
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Ranger D Danger
6 years ago

Pityopus she is correct!

Hello
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Hello
6 years ago

Wonder if this is same family. They kinda looked like spray foam blobs couple weeks ago.

Robin
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Robin
6 years ago

Hello: I think that is the gnome plant, Hemitomes congestum

A closer look at the anther sacs of the original photo, as they dehisce, will be important for correct ID: Pleuricospora or Pityopus.

Beautiful photos! Thank you

Hello
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Hello
6 years ago
Reply to  Robin

After it matures, how do we tell which one it is. ?

Robin
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Robin
6 years ago

The pink plant is Hemitomes, gnome plant. It is pinkish, and its petals are fused together into a small tube. Looking closer at the flowering yellowish plant, looks more like Pleuricospora fimbriolata; the dark yellow center is the flat-topped stigma, which is a different look than Pityopus. To be sure, to distinguish between these two, the anther sacs of Pleuricospora are long slender (the ‘typical’), while Pityopus have rounded anthers, shaped like a little burger bun.

Crime stopper
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Crime stopper
6 years ago

Another great pic of the subspecies Blondis poopitis periodis

db
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db
6 years ago

So awesome, I’ve seen these all over the woods around my house this spring, and could not figure out what they were. Thanks for the botany lesson!

Galerina Autumnalis
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Galerina Autumnalis
6 years ago

Tom Volk’s site is bursting with info on this and other neat things.

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/oct2002.html