This is Day 2 for the discovery of this most unusual super large mushroom and the interior orange color has gotten very pale, probably bleached by the sun. The cup is filling up with dry spruce needles.
Day 1: I discovered it yesterday (Thursday) and the interior color was much more vibrant inside.
Day 1: Looking inside.
Day 1 photographed in early morning light.
I took this one on Day 2 on Friday afternoon (today). It's very large and I have never seen anything this unusual on my property and it definitely belongs in a storybook. I wish I knew more about it. I'm just so happy I found it.
xo
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Now that's an unusual mushroom! I've never seen one like that before. Hope you enjoy your weekend, Rosemary. Many of our local farmers are finishing up the harvest this weekend. It was a good year for most, thank God!
OMG, it's fabulous! I have an app on my iPhone called, "PlantSnap". I can take a picture of any plant or flower and the app will identify it for me. There are quite a few apps like this available.
What is that large thing off to the right, Rosemary? It looks like a giant boulder, or maybe it's the bottom of a very large tree.
Lisa D. -- It really is a giant boulder. When I was restoring my cottage there was the tip of a rock sticking out of the driveway on the slope going down to garage/barn. My mason contractor said he could dig it up. It turned out to be THIS BIG. You never know the size of rocks that are underground. xo, Rosemary
Lisa D. Thanks. I'll look into that plant app. xo, Rosemary
Pam -- I am enjoying the last weekend in October. Hope you are too. Glad the farmers in your area are having a productive fall harvest before they plant their winter crops or groundcover. The giant mushroom was a thrilling discovery for me. xo, Rosemary
I know very little about mushrooms, but it looks to me like a fly agaric (Amanita muscaria). The only reason I'm familiar with this one is that it shows up everywhere in folk art and illustrations. Think about it, the ubiquitous red capped mushroom with white spots. They happen to turn themselves inside out with time, but that's a condition rarely depicted in art. It's easy to find info on it. One site mentioned this fun fact:
It was common on Christmas cards in Victorian and Edwardian times as a symbol of good luck and its colours are thought to have been the inspiration for Santa Claus's red and white suit.
Less fun fact, though very important to remember:
It's poisonous and infamous for its psychoactive and hallucinogenic properties.
Well, unless you want to have get trippy. Don't even touch it. Every time I see one in folk art, I think, what an odd choice, given the aforementioned facts. Apparently you'd have to eat many of them to die, but they make you so sick you wish you would die.
mia -- I thought my mushroom might be the one you mention that had somehow turned from a dome top into a cup. I wish I had discovered it earlier in its storybook form with Santa Claus colors. Thank you SO MUCH for the history. I hope the spores spread and give me more to photograph (without touching). I never walk in this area because of all the tree branches so it's protected. xo, Rosemary
Do you think that is a poisonous mushroom? Amazing what types of fungi pop out of the ground. I don't see very many of them in dry drought ridden Utah.
The Queen Vee -- Victoria, One of the commenters identified it and YES, it's poisonous. I would never forage wild mushrooms because I would be afraid to eat them. The man who picked up my garbage at my former house would often get out of his truck and pick mushrooms from my fields. He's still alive so I guess he knew what he was doing. xo, Rosemary
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