A while ago me and my boyfriend made one of those regular family visits to my family. We were enjoying ourselves and having fun, when my brother mentioned a weirdly looking mushroom that grows on our family property near the forest. He said that it's red and that the weirdest thing was that it kind of looks like an octopus, because it has tentacles. I looked at him and was very surprised. I never heard or saw anything like that and was of course very curious, what this strange thing is. I immediately used our uncle Google to try and solve this mysterious case. I was once again very pleasantly surprised of what I found.
We were all very curious and wanted to know as much as possible about this mushroom, so I read a few interesting facts about it out loud, so that everybody in the room could hear it.
Below, I will list a few facts about the hatching (yeah, literally) fungus =>
=> when the fungus is young it grows from an suberumpent egg
- 4-6 cm high, 2-4 cm wide
- slimy, moist, gelatinous
- the eggs are often found in clusters
=> when the fungus matures it forms 4-7 longer slender arms that erect out of the sac and attached at the top and then unfold
- tentacle-like fingers
- length: 5-10 cm
- looks like a starfish or a red flower
=> when the "arms" are unfolded, we can see a colored interior (color: pink-red) that is covered with smelly mucus stains/mucous substance (color: dark brown-olive-to-black) with spores and contains gleba
=> at first the "fingers" are joined and then they spread out
It kind of looks like the Joker's hat, doesn't it? 😁😁😁
The pictures aren't mine. &
Used sites:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrus_archeri
http://eol.org/pages/1029300/overview
https://nerdist.com/watch-the-devils-finger-fungus-hatch-like-a-xenomorph-egg/
http://www.rtvslo.si/blog/doba/rdeca-zvezda-v-gozdu/94007
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