Shrooms

[RandyRhoads]

Originally Posted by smy_749

Can I eat them randy? Bahahaha

We have all kinds of mushrooms growing in my front yard. But the weird thing is I didn't take anything from outside my house for this enclosure. And the one that ended up growing in there is not one of the ones I've ever seen before. I ripped them all out and stirred up the soil. We will see what that does for now.

Do not eat them. Some mushrooms in that genus are edible, and delicious such as Coprinus comatus, some like Coprinopsis atramentaria are edible, but contain Coprine, which is very similar to Disulfiram, which when taken with any alcohol causes horrible GI reactions.

Even if those were edible, they are too small and insignificant to think about eating...


As for not bringing anything from outside, there are hundreds of thousands of spores floating in the air at any given time. Most never get the chance to shoot out hyphae, because they need to land in the right environment to germinate, even if they get to that point, they need another spore/hyphal strand of the opposite sex in close proximity to fuze and form mycelium.

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by RandyRhoads

Do not eat them. Some mushrooms in that genus are edible, and delicious such as Coprinus comatus, some like Coprinopsis atramentaria are edible, but contain Coprine, which is very similar to Disulfiram, which when taken with any alcohol causes horrible GI reactions.

Even if those were edible, they are too small and insignificant to think about eating...


As for not bringing anything from outside, there are hundreds of thousands of spores floating in the air at any given time. Most never get the chance to shoot out hyphae, because they need to land in the right environment to germinate, even if they get to that point, they need another spore/hyphal strand of the opposite sex in close proximity to fuze and form mycelium.

Yea I was messing, I don't do drugs or smoke or drink or anything at all. Never even smoked a cigarette. And I studied all that life cycle junk in plant pathology, but I never saw it in any other enclosures and that species I've never seen in my area. I think it came in with the moss I bought at home depot, or even spores on one of the plants ....

[RandyRhoads]

Originally Posted by smy_749

Yea I was messing, I don't do drugs or smoke or drink or anything at all. Never even smoked a cigarette. And I studied all that life cycle junk in plant pathology, but I never saw it in any other enclosures and that species I've never seen in my area. I think it came in with the moss I bought at home depot, or even spores on one of the plants ....

Junk?!?!


I wasn't referring to anything drug related with you eating that species of mushroom....

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by RandyRhoads

Junk?!?!


I wasn't referring to anything drug related with you eating that species of mushroom....

Oh, I was referring completely to drug related matters when I asked initially lol

And I like botany admittedly, I just took a random plant pathology class for related subject material, and it turned out to be a very akward class with me and 9 farmers and turf grass majors. The professor asked what everyone's favorite plant was, and I was the only one who didn't have an answer lmao

Spent 4 months talking about grass rusts and fungal rots of corn or whatever, so I hated it. Sporangia, basidiomycetes, oomycetes, SOooooooo many life cycles. I got a C ..

[RandyRhoads]

Originally Posted by smy_749

Oh, I was referring completely to drug related matters when I asked initially lol

And I like botany admittedly, I just took a random plant pathology class for related subject material, and it turned out to be a very akward class with me and 9 farmers and turf grass majors. The professor asked what everyone's favorite plant was, and I was the only one who didn't have an answer lmao

Spent 4 months talking about grass rusts and fungal rots of corn or whatever, so I hated it. Sporangia, basidiomycetes, oomycetes, SOooooooo many life cycles. I got a C ..

Ohh....

You're lucky...I can't wait until I have the chance to take an actual class on some biology/mycology.....

You can't be hating on parasitic grain fungi....some very er...great things were discovered thanks to that

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by RandyRhoads

Ohh....

You're lucky...I can't wait until I have the chance to take an actual class on some biology/mycology.....

You can't be hating on parasitic grain fungi....some very er...great things were discovered thanks to that

I'm not hating on the parasitic fungi, I'm sure they are very good and parasitic and what not. I just don't like the whole subject because of my horrible professor and extremely awkward class. In my 4.5 years of college, I've taken quite a few random classes haha Some of them I enjoyed and some of them not so much. Basically anything to do with biology I've taken at my Uni lol Microbio, biochem, biology, ecology, genetics, animal behavior, animal physiology, blah blah blah.