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[tamidon]

someone's gotta have the right books

I'm wondering what these mushrooms are?

this monster shows up every year.

this is pretty and weird and all through my woods

These look like chanterelles...frobzwiththingz is planning to find out tonight if they are edible or not.

Comments

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

Pretty and weird: Indian Pipes! I think they're a kind of orchid, and i think endangered... they were springing up all through our woods about 3 weeks ago, now gone by. Lovely little things!

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

wikipedia says that's that's them (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_pipes) Weird, they have no chlorophyll and other strange stuff

[doctordidj.livejournal.com]

Indian Pipe is a flowering plant (not a fungus), but a saprophyte with no chlorophyll. It has symbiotic fungus in its roots that eat moist decaying stuff.