The moment might be drawing near…….when I will turn away from my exciting career as a farm wife blogger and become a……a…..a…..a mushroom hunter and researcher! YES! These outdoor fungi are fascinating! Why didn’t I realize that when I was young and could have traveled the world, scratching through dank, dark dirt, looking for unique specimens. There’s no morel to this story; I simply needed to blog about something…..ANYTHING……to fulfill my quota before Saturday.
This odd, carrot-wannabe fungal entity is growing in our flower garden right now.
If you want to see something else that’s quite interesting---and a bit gross, too---go to Oz Girl’s blog to view a close-up photo of an engorged tick. Be sure to click on the photos there to get a really up-close and personal look at the charming little fellow.
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I like the circle of mushrooms, kind of looks like the circle things that someone makes in the cornfields sometimes and tries to make believe an alien spaceship landed and made them. And that carrot one is just outstanding...;)
that was my first thought...alien mushrooms in a field!
and...don't carrots grow underground?
Farm Wife,
A MOREL to the story????...REALLY, a PUN my word!!!
I can hardly wait forRWP to see this.
The semi-circle is interesting, and makes me wonder what's buried there that created the shape. Are there any agricultural archeologists in Readlyn?
The ground-level shot is brilliant.
Looks like you have a mutinus elegans of the Stinkhorn family in your garden. About which, the least said, the better.
Hi, Gramma Ann,
Yes, I found that crescent of toadstools to be quite intriguing. That photo is from two summers ago, I believe.
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Hi, Deb,
Who knows....maybe a UFO landed there once! Carrots for sure grow underground.....this mushroom is an upside-down carrot wannabe. Very weird looking.
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Hi, Reamus,
What happened? Did I mispell "moral".....I'm sorry about that. Heehee.
Happy travels!
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Hi, Sempringham,
Are there any agricultural archeologists ANYWHERE??
And, oh, my goodness......I thought you must have made up "mutinus elegans" and "Stinkhorn" terms, but lo and behold, that is exactly what it is!! I almost inserted a link to the info page, but then thought better of it. How impressive that you recognized this mushroom variety! Ahem.
The circle of mushrooms is called "a Fairy Ring." I remember my Dad getting on his hands and knees and we would see if there were fairies under the mushrooms.
Great Photos!
Hi, Carolina Trekker,
A fairy ring!? Really?! That's cool, and a fun memory about your dad you have there. (Don't tell anyone, but that's why that one shot is from ground level....I was down there looking for the fairies, too....)
Farm Wife,
Come on, you KNEW that "Morel
" is a wnderful edibly mushroom right?
Ah, sending the poor folk over to see my gross tick, eh? I'm trying to be nice for awhile and post soothing country pics... LOL
That last fungi... I've had those in Ohio and I've even seen a few here in Kansas since I moved here last summer. Grossed me out the first time I discovered it in my Ohio garden. What a weird fungus!!!
Hi, Reamus,
But, of course! I know a morel is an edible mushroom....whether it is wonderful, I cannot say, having never tasted one.
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Hi, Oz Girl,
Your tick photos are fascinating....we can't have "soothing" all the time.
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