Trouble identifying a fungus
22-07-2004, 04:40
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Trouble identifying a fungus
It's some sort of fungus but despite two days of searching I can't find a pic that looks anything close. I'd really like to know what it is - it makes me feel uneasy. I know that sounds silly but it does - it's not a normal shape for one thing.
It's growing on the cellar floor and is sort of whispy white/grey in colour. There are like tendrils, only flat, spread out over the floor that have drawn together to form a short stump from which a trumpet has opened. The trumpet's not round though - it's triangular. Imagine a triangle with the sizes pushed in (concave). Then pull the three sides of the triangle apart so the points of the triangle are about an inch apart. There's a depression about an inch across in the middle - only shallow though.
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22-07-2004, 06:46
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Re: Trouble identifying a fungus
thats not fungus its a triffid, watch out
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22-07-2004, 10:59
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Re: Trouble identifying a fungus
Triffid? *googles it*
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22-07-2004, 11:03
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Re: Trouble identifying a fungus
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Originally Posted by greencreeper
It's some sort of fungus but despite two days of searching I can't find a pic that looks anything close. I'd really like to know what it is - it makes me feel uneasy. I know that sounds silly but it does - it's not a normal shape for one thing.
It's growing on the cellar floor and is sort of whispy white/grey in colour. There are like tendrils, only flat, spread out over the floor that have drawn together to form a short stump from which a trumpet has opened. The trumpet's not round though - it's triangular. Imagine a triangle with the sizes pushed in (concave). Then pull the three sides of the triangle apart so the points of the triangle are about an inch apart. There's a depression about an inch across in the middle - only shallow though.
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Can you get a piccy ?
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22-07-2004, 11:03
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Re: Trouble identifying a fungus
That does look nasty actually 
Why would it be growing in a cellar though? Now that's just weird.
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22-07-2004, 11:05
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22-07-2004, 11:05
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That does look nasty actually
Why would it be growing in a cellar though? Now that's just weird. |
i would be seriosuly worried if a triffid actually grew ANYWHERE in the world...
you do know it is a makebelieve plant?  search the IMDB for "day of the triffids"........
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22-07-2004, 11:08
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Re: Trouble identifying a fungus
I know I was looking, got part of the joke, but I got a real plant as I gave the link up there ^
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22-07-2004, 11:27
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Re: Trouble identifying a fungus
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I know I was looking, got part of the joke, but I got a real plant as I gave the link up there ^
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No, that's what they looked like in the TV series 
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22-07-2004, 11:28
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Bleh, I always fall into the jokes 
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22-07-2004, 11:29
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Re: Trouble identifying a fungus
I would be concerned about dry rot !!
Do the tendrils disappear into any walls and up to where any timber is located ??
Does the fruiting body look anything like these pics ??
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22-07-2004, 12:01
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Re: Trouble identifying a fungus
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Originally Posted by greencreeper
It's some sort of fungus ... It's growing on the cellar floor and is sort of whispy white/grey in colour <snip>
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Just checking, does it take up mushroom 
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22-07-2004, 12:16
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Just checking, does it take up mushroom |
With jokes like that you must be a real fungi to be with
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22-07-2004, 12:18
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22-07-2004, 12:20
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Re: Trouble identifying a fungus
...Watching .... Now behave
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