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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!
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!
We have three biology degrees in our home, including one in botany, and we agree with you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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John
6 years ago
What did it taste like?
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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.
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.
After it matures, how do we tell which one it is. ?
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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.
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Crime stopper
6 years ago
Another great pic of the subspecies Blondis poopitis periodis
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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!
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Galerina Autumnalis
6 years ago
Tom Volk’s site is bursting with info on this and other neat things.
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Looks a little like popcorn.strange
Left over yellow snow?
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A bic lighter and some crack cocaine organically grown.
Great stuff foam
Slime mold. But the picture resolution is low.
https://www.google.com/search?q=slime+mold&client=tablet-android-verizon&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiS3LWc85fUAhVmrlQKHQEADXwQ_AUICSgB&biw=1280&bih=800
Why? Is there a story?
Just curious. I love the little pieces of this area. I like to get to know them.
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!
Me, too.
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!
We have three biology degrees in our home, including one in botany, and we agree with you.
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.
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.
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.
What did it taste like?
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.
Smoke it and find out.
Chump smoked it,,, look what happened.
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.
A perfect specimen of Blondis poopitis
The photographer sent me this photo of the fungi after it flowered.
I’ve seen them with a Pink Shade to them on spots around Black Lassic
It is not a fungus, it is a vascular plant. It lacks chlorophyll because it gets it food from fungi, which it parasitizes.
Thank you.
That’s beautiful..
That’s beautiful. I love the beauty nature has to offer to us.
There is a fungus among us.
I think robin got it with California Pinefoot.
Pityopus she is correct!
Wonder if this is same family. They kinda looked like spray foam blobs couple weeks 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
After it matures, how do we tell which one it is. ?
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.
Another great pic of the subspecies Blondis poopitis periodis
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!
Tom Volk’s site is bursting with info on this and other neat things.
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/oct2002.html