You all know how much I like wild things and mushrooms are one of my most favorite. Yes, I have blogged about it many times before showing pictures of them. Well, I am going to bore you again today with mushroom pictures. This one came up in potting soil that my wife purchased and was supposed to be pure soil. Yes, I know that mushroom spores are floating around in the air trying to find a suitable place to plant themselves and produce a fruiting bloom, which we call mushrooms. But the largest percentage of the organism is underground and called mycelium. So you see, the actual part we call the mushroom is just the fruit or bloom.
Oh yes, you say "shut up and show me the pictures". OK, I will.
The above pictures were taken just a couple of days ago when I first noticed it. The pictures below, I took today.
Yep, it sure did mature rather quickly, but the amazing part is that it came up in supposedly pure, bagged potting soil. It just goes to show you that life will spring back up from sterilized media. Therefore, I would have to think that some sort of life has taken hold on other planets in our huge universe.
BTW, today is my wife's and my 52nd anniversary. . . hey, at least I remembered it was today. Now, you all have a great day, you hear?
Happy Anniversary to you both and many more, I hope, to come.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be eating that volunteer unless you favor gastroenteritis or worse for your marriage celebration. ;(}
Thanks for the anniversary wishes and I sure ain't going to eat that one. Bet if I did I would end up underground pushing up mushrooms.
DeleteHappy Anniversary! My (only) tomato plant which we bought at the Farmer's Market and put in an outdoor container... with potting soil... has also sprouted some mushrooms in this yuckky weather that we're having... not as pretty as yours... I think maybe Inkys or something like that... And as Wil suggests, no way would I even consider eating them. Again... it's wonderful that you two are celebrating your anniversary... hope there's many more to come.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the anniversary wishes. Back many years ago, I sent for a mushroom guide from the University of Michigan. It has been my mushroom identification bible for years. Sometimes you have to take a spore sample. And of course I had most of Euell Gibbons' books, too.
DeleteWe have morels here. Fortunately they are very easy to identify. They are great breaded and fried.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary and many more!!
I lived the first half of my life in Pennsylvania and morals grew there. I only had them when I was a boy, but if my memory serves me, they were quite tasty.
Deletemorals???? hahahaha no morals in TX??? hahahahah
DeleteI don't know, I have never seen any here, although they say that they grow in the deep south coastal areas.
DeleteHappy Anniversary! Wishing you both a wonderful day and many more years of happiness
ReplyDeleteThanks JO. I hope there will be many more years of happiness, too.
DeleteFirst of all I want to wish you and your wife a Happy Anniversary! Beautiful mushroom. Doesn't surprise me that you found it in your potting soil. Life will find a way to survive no matter what or where. That is why I do believe there is life somewhere else in our universe.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the goo wishes. And my thoughts exactly, there has to be life elsewhere.
DeleteHappy anniversary to both of you!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jim.
DeleteHappy anniversary to you both.
ReplyDeleteWhile I love mushrooms...do not think I would eat them from that plant...will go with the canned ones at HEB :)