Monday, December 12, 2005

universal veil ...


one scoop of dung may provide home for as many as 40 species of fungi and there may be as many as 1,500,000 species of fungus, one specimen of the common bracket fungus, can produce 350,000 spores per second, 30 billion spores a day and 4,500 billion in one season ! almost all of them covered in a thin universal veil as they erupt ... but i havent seen any universal veil like this ...

9 Comments:

Blogger J Yuma said...

stunning picture.a great find.

12:24 PM  
Blogger Isreal Fake said...

now that's a universal veil if ever i saw one.

12:55 PM  
Blogger Dave said...

I love that mushroom

1:48 PM  
Blogger Jorge Paulo said...

truly stunning pic....tell me does this mushy have a pungent smell ?

2:33 PM  
Blogger wildpic said...

whow ... dint know universal veil has such a universal appeal. photographing fungi has always facinated me now lets see what i can dig out.

jrg, as far as i know it dint have any smell being about 11" close, but this season i hope to find it again to smell it up close, hope i dont get knocked out !

aya, i have to thank u for the inspiration, knock ur self out.

4:09 PM  
Blogger rauf said...

wow Suresh Amazing details
quite stunning, lovlely picture as usual

9:21 AM  
Blogger wildpic said...

Johnny, Josef, John ... chk my next unveiling.

thanks rauf, unusually am in trouble.

11:27 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

looks alien. even before you eat it.

11:58 AM  
Blogger wildpic said...

fungi are tricky to eat chinna, unless wellknown, basically tried n tested by many, else stay away, could be highly toxic.

4:31 PM  

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