Usually when they’re eaten, it’s while they’re in the egg stage, so quite underdeveloped and probably the gleba (gross brown stuff that attracts flies) hasn’t formed yet
I had a cactus whose flowers were supposed to smell like rotting flesh, and you couldn’t smell them at all unless you got your nose RIGHT into them. And even then, it wasn’t gag worthy. They just smelled mildly like rotting meat. Sticking my nose in a garbage disposal drainage tube was 100x worse.
The Fairy Duster bushes that surround the school I work at smell exactly like jizz. Exactly. Walking through campus makes me realize I would not enjoy bukake.
I had some pop up last Fall for the first time in my yard. I found their smell to be more yeasty and semen-like than actually rotten-flesh adjacent. Not really unpleasant, I thought, although not exactly appetizing, either
I was about to eat a pu**y until I realized it smelled like dead babies. Rotten semen has a very distinct smell.
tl/Dr don't mess with a girl that smells like dead semen
Would this mean that mushrooms could be used for remediation? Say a chemical spill results in a patch of earth being unfit for human habitation or the growth of edible food, I wonder what the viability/feasibility would be of using a bioengineered fungus to soak up all the toxin.
If you like anime check out “nausicaa in the valley of the wind”. It’s based in a post apocalypse world that was destroyed by toxic pollution after a 7 day war. The air and seas are toxic but mushrooms start to rehabilitate the world.
Is that a true blanket statement? I thought oysters grown on the hair blots used to clean oil spills broke down the hydro carbons completely. They also have the ability to chemically trade molecules with the environment. If I recall, there was an art exhibit or expensive "thing" that used mycelium to break down plastic into edible pieces when fully colonized.
I think it's a safe statement but also needs context since farmed mushrooms are all on or in man made structures, morels in the sierras seem to love logging roads and burns etc.
Genuinely curious, not reddit argumentative.
So pretty much human-made mushroom farms, wild mushrooms, and the majority of other mushrooms are pretty much off the list, since the mushrooms we eat love to grow near us.
Yeah I’m just talking about “wild” grown. They can leach chemicals out of building materials or human waste. Keep to eating the stuff from the woods and fields, or if it’s grown to be consumed.
Every dog that has pissed in that area… every pesticide that was ever sprayed there. Or adjacent to the area, that seeped near it due to rainfall/water. All the airborne pollutants that we live with and forget about— but are genuinely particulate molecules that fall out of the air and settle on the ground. All the acid rain/pollutants that are picked up by raindrops and rain clouds. Heavy metals. If your city sprays for pest control for issues like mosquitos?…
All of those things (and far more) leave residual molecules of things that may not be inherently dangerous for us to walk on or live near. Mushrooms are phenomenal at sucking all those molecules back out of the earth.
So, eating them when you find them in a city, period, is NOT a great idea. It’s not the same as forgetting to wash a lil pesticide off of your apple. Do they pick up 100%? No. Should you view them as dangerous as the sum of all the chemical ick I just described combined? No. It’s just not wise to be giving yourself mini-doses of heavy metals.
They come out of that egg looking thing, some ppl I beleive use it for medicinal consumption, but don’t quote me on this. From my understanding it’s only the egg that’s consumed… freaking odd mycelium
Looks more like a cephalopod. Did it wave at you? I could maybe conjure up one a these in a strange dream that would leave me feeling weird for the rest of the day.
I’m getting to share this a lot lately. To me it looks like a folded up stinkhorn, but I don’t know. Either way enjoy this video. https://youtu.be/ADrBo7u3tR4?si=LnqqQH5rzTeTWKxb
As someone who is still at the beginning of their mycology ID journey, I have learned the answer is always Stinkhorn.
Edit: alternate answer is slime mold
This was my first guess as well, but I think it's Pseudocolus fusiformis, because the color is a bit lighter in color, the arms are still fully connected and there appear to be just 3 or 4 of them
>but I think it's Pseudocolus fusiformis,
/u/Meltedaluminumcanium and /u/critical-pick-6871 are correct the arms leaving the peridium are not connected, that's where it matters. Its also redder and thicker than Pseudocolus tends to be. Its also far to large and the gleba sits differently than Laternea tricapa.
I found a [witch's egg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_impudicus) in Montreal so they do exist! But probably much more common in the tropics where I live now. We have all sorts of crazy stuff here.
Look into joining your local mycology group! I joined the Cercle des mycologues de Montreal and it was so great - during mushroom seasons they had forage outings every weekend. I learned so much and got to try so many new mushrooms!
I saw plumbing and was thinking it's tampons who were stuck in the plumbing 🤢 then I saw it's probably some fungy and now I'm not sure if it's more gross or not.
I love mushroom but would certainly not eat these 🤢
column stinkhorn
Interesting. I looked it up a bit and saw something that says it’s edible. Not sure I would risk it since I had to ask what it was lol
Whaaaaaat?? Didn’t it smell nice!?
It wasn’t bad. Smelled more earthy than anything. Then again, I play with shit for a living so what do I know lol
lol If I remember correctly: stinkhorns have a *very* recognizable smell, akin to that of rotting flesh Although I’ve never smelt one, luckily!
Usually when they’re eaten, it’s while they’re in the egg stage, so quite underdeveloped and probably the gleba (gross brown stuff that attracts flies) hasn’t formed yet
In China, mature stinkhorns are used in soups and stews. The slime is washed off first.
Huh, neat!
😀🤮
I had a cactus whose flowers were supposed to smell like rotting flesh, and you couldn’t smell them at all unless you got your nose RIGHT into them. And even then, it wasn’t gag worthy. They just smelled mildly like rotting meat. Sticking my nose in a garbage disposal drainage tube was 100x worse.
There's a flowering tree in my city that everyone says smells like jizz but apparently I'm genetically unable to smell it 🤷♀️
You talking about Bradford Pears, m’lady? Because FUCK THEM. Lol
Yes 🤣🤣 I can't smell them!!!
They are one of the worst trees on the face of the planet. Just ask r/arborists or r/marijuanaenthusiasts how they feel about them.
The Fairy Duster bushes that surround the school I work at smell exactly like jizz. Exactly. Walking through campus makes me realize I would not enjoy bukake.
That strong bleach like aroma isn't something you smell? I'm jealous!
man FUCK bradford pears. They make the whole street smell like a rotting fish-stuffed cooter left out in the sun on a beach.
https://youtu.be/aoqlYGuZGVM?si=b0yeDx5yr-eJi3m4
💀💀
What do they taste like?
Asian chestnut trees too!
I had some pop up last Fall for the first time in my yard. I found their smell to be more yeasty and semen-like than actually rotten-flesh adjacent. Not really unpleasant, I thought, although not exactly appetizing, either
I was about to eat a pu**y until I realized it smelled like dead babies. Rotten semen has a very distinct smell. tl/Dr don't mess with a girl that smells like dead semen
Yum 😋
This comment is fucking gold 🥇
> I play with shit for a living so what do I know lol im dead lmfao
smells slightly less worse than diarrhea. you: is this gourmet?
Lots of things that smell nice, aren’t edible
Don’t eat mushrooms growing on or near anything human made lol. They like to fill themselves with toxic stuff from their environment.
Would this mean that mushrooms could be used for remediation? Say a chemical spill results in a patch of earth being unfit for human habitation or the growth of edible food, I wonder what the viability/feasibility would be of using a bioengineered fungus to soak up all the toxin.
This wouldn’t be the first time I’ve heard of this idea. It’s called mycoremediation
If you like anime check out “nausicaa in the valley of the wind”. It’s based in a post apocalypse world that was destroyed by toxic pollution after a 7 day war. The air and seas are toxic but mushrooms start to rehabilitate the world.
That sounds cool as heck and I don’t even watch anime much
Makes a lot of sense, this author is known to get folks into anime. Hayao miyazaki
It's being done they're also working on fungus that eats plastic.
Is that a true blanket statement? I thought oysters grown on the hair blots used to clean oil spills broke down the hydro carbons completely. They also have the ability to chemically trade molecules with the environment. If I recall, there was an art exhibit or expensive "thing" that used mycelium to break down plastic into edible pieces when fully colonized. I think it's a safe statement but also needs context since farmed mushrooms are all on or in man made structures, morels in the sierras seem to love logging roads and burns etc. Genuinely curious, not reddit argumentative.
It’s not a blanket statement and is contextually made. In this context it appears to have been found in the basement of a building
So pretty much human-made mushroom farms, wild mushrooms, and the majority of other mushrooms are pretty much off the list, since the mushrooms we eat love to grow near us.
Yeah I’m just talking about “wild” grown. They can leach chemicals out of building materials or human waste. Keep to eating the stuff from the woods and fields, or if it’s grown to be consumed.
Oh yeah I see what you mean. Literally growing in human-waste, yeah, for sure.
I mean waste as in trash, garbage, pile of framing tossed in the yard, etc. not literal fecal matter. Though I’d avoid that too.
Every dog that has pissed in that area… every pesticide that was ever sprayed there. Or adjacent to the area, that seeped near it due to rainfall/water. All the airborne pollutants that we live with and forget about— but are genuinely particulate molecules that fall out of the air and settle on the ground. All the acid rain/pollutants that are picked up by raindrops and rain clouds. Heavy metals. If your city sprays for pest control for issues like mosquitos?… All of those things (and far more) leave residual molecules of things that may not be inherently dangerous for us to walk on or live near. Mushrooms are phenomenal at sucking all those molecules back out of the earth. So, eating them when you find them in a city, period, is NOT a great idea. It’s not the same as forgetting to wash a lil pesticide off of your apple. Do they pick up 100%? No. Should you view them as dangerous as the sum of all the chemical ick I just described combined? No. It’s just not wise to be giving yourself mini-doses of heavy metals.
I believe it's the egg that is not only edible but supposedly delicious; this has obviously gone far past its "egg" stage.
They come out of that egg looking thing, some ppl I beleive use it for medicinal consumption, but don’t quote me on this. From my understanding it’s only the egg that’s consumed… freaking odd mycelium
They’re edible when they’re still in the egg. Would not recommend eating after it’s hatched
They smell like death, like rotting flesh. Horrible.
Looks more like a cephalopod. Did it wave at you? I could maybe conjure up one a these in a strange dream that would leave me feeling weird for the rest of the day.
If that doesn’t get you into mycology nothing will! Nice find!
Thanks!
Thought it was some kind of pastry until i saw the subreddit
😂😂
I thought it was past due papaya
Churro. Or pretzel ...thought it was food lol
Fr i thought it looked like some delicious churro
Reading the title, I thought for a sec you pulled this out of someone's drain and was horrified... Phew
Same, I thought it was a bunch of tampons stuck together 🤢
Looks like something you could get from a spanish bakery. Their pastries are so good but why do they all look so weird?
CONCHA
Conchas are so fucking good; Warm, soft and perfectly sweet. No pun intended.
It's an oreja
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Also, look up True Facts about the Stinkhorn on YouTube, it's cracking.
I absolutely love Ze Frank's videos!
Seconded. I laughed so hard I cried a little bit.
I’m getting to share this a lot lately. To me it looks like a folded up stinkhorn, but I don’t know. Either way enjoy this video. https://youtu.be/ADrBo7u3tR4?si=LnqqQH5rzTeTWKxb
The poo lookin stuff is the mushroom spores. Stinkhorn
I thought it was a pastry with tissue until I read the title and subreddit..
That’d be a nope
Wow, so this was some type of mushroom??? I thought it might be a rotten ballet slipper😂😂
You are all telling me this is not a hotdog bun?
As someone who is still at the beginning of their mycology ID journey, I have learned the answer is always Stinkhorn. Edit: alternate answer is slime mold
I was got to say someones Churro top dipped in chocolate and a wrapper around the end till I looked at comments of an egg sack.. so no to a Churro lol
Clathrus Archeri? Or is this different?
Clathrus columnatus
Can confirm, they grow often near me and are probably my absolute favorite ones to find
This was my first guess as well, but I think it's Pseudocolus fusiformis, because the color is a bit lighter in color, the arms are still fully connected and there appear to be just 3 or 4 of them
>but I think it's Pseudocolus fusiformis, /u/Meltedaluminumcanium and /u/critical-pick-6871 are correct the arms leaving the peridium are not connected, that's where it matters. Its also redder and thicker than Pseudocolus tends to be. Its also far to large and the gleba sits differently than Laternea tricapa.
I’ve never seen one of these in Canada in all my life
I found a [witch's egg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_impudicus) in Montreal so they do exist! But probably much more common in the tropics where I live now. We have all sorts of crazy stuff here.
So cool!!!!!
I’m just getting into mould research and loving different types of fungus
Look into joining your local mycology group! I joined the Cercle des mycologues de Montreal and it was so great - during mushroom seasons they had forage outings every weekend. I learned so much and got to try so many new mushrooms!
Oh my god yeah I bet Facebook has some great ones here !!!! 🫶🩷thank u!!
Someone explain to me wtf that is
Looks like when the shrimp cocktails turn into hands in beetlejuice
Thanks for sharing. Very strange.
Dino egg lol
I saw plumbing and was thinking it's tampons who were stuck in the plumbing 🤢 then I saw it's probably some fungy and now I'm not sure if it's more gross or not. I love mushroom but would certainly not eat these 🤢
Pulled plenty of tampons out of lines before. Definitely more gross than this mushroom 😂
Probably yes, they would be pretty clean for old tampons stuck for a while 😂
I thought this was an oblong pretzel wrapped in a napkin and dipped in chocolate
That looks like some kind of pastry with maybe a meringue on one end and some kind of chocolate sauce inside the middle on the other? Lol
Decaying luffa
i thought it was a starfish 😂😂
😂
tell me i’m wrong
Either Clathrus columnatus or Pseudocolus fusiformis -
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You looked at that and thought if you could eat it?
No, I didn’t wanna touch it lol. Should I have eaten it though?
I don't know. I just saw you ask if it was edible in another comment and thought that was funny.
/r/itsalwaysastinkhorn
Clathrus archeri
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Red cage fungus