Monkeyd's big phat totaly random Tree type thing - photovisual thread...........

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

oh thats a cool site by the sounds, worth a trip up from watford?

[David Humphries]

oh thats a cool site by the sounds, worth a trip up from watford?

 

Yep

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Yep

 

 

 

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Dont need telling twice, shall have a peek soon as the autumn has arrived:thumbup1:

[parkster]

Nice perspective

 

maybe put them up in the general picture thread, you'd get a bigger audience

 

 

 

 

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No worries didn't mean to offend, glad you liked them anyways. Easy now

[David Humphries]

No worries didn't mean to offend, glad you liked them anyways. Easy now

 

Like wise, no worries my good man.

 

keep a clickin & postin

 

 

 

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[janey]

Wanted somewhere to club together a collection of shots that made me stop & snap.

 

The power of the mighty mycelium. Buried under a layer of tarmac? Pah, no problem for this tough cookie

[David Humphries]

The power of the mighty mycelium. Buried under a layer of tarmac? Pah, no problem for this tough cookie

 

 

 

You do realise that you will have to return over the next three or four days to capture the full emergence now, dont you ?

 

 

You just can't go and dangle this kinda thing in front of us & not deliver.

 

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

The power of the mighty mycelium. Buried under a layer of tarmac? Pah, no problem for this tough cookie ...

 

Janey,

... which is Agaricus bitorquis, in Dutch - for obvious reasons - called the Street champignon.

Closed in annually fruiting mushrooms are capable of shifting or lifting lumps of earth, layers of tarmac or pavement tiles and stones, because they - apart from the reproductive organs and spores - develop all cells necessary for development of a fruitbody in a "bud" or primordium (see photo of the primordia or Cosmic Eggs of the Fly Agaric), which does not grow, but stretches by absorbing moisture from the outside and storing it into the cells, triggering unstopable hydraulic powers making this tour de force possible.

That's why Phallus impudicus can "grow" up to two to five centimetre an hour once the "egg tooth" (discus) on top of the "head" has cut through the outer layer of the witches' or devil's egg without needing a blue pill to become and stay erect for several hours. And I once even witnessed Meripilus giganteus fruiting with two 40 x 40 centimetres concrete sidewalk tiles on top lifting them up to 40 centimetres above ground level.

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[David Goss]

Nice thread and some nice pics

I thought i would post these ones here seeing you like fungus so much, found them about 10 feet up an ash the other day, enjoy

[Fungus]

seeing you like fungus so much, found them about 10 feet up an ash the other day

 

Old annual brackets of Inonotus hispidus.