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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

She looks like she's having an intense conversation with it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

*reishi

Also, that looks like a woman.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fixed, thanks

Also I'm in my late 20s, I feel like I can still be a boy quite often. It felt like we were kids looking at a massive mushroom in the woods.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

(narrator): but it was not fixed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, I thought I changed it to reishi. Is it not displaying for everyone else?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's updated for me. Might be a federation issue on their end.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

That just wasn't the part of the title I was focused on / expecting to be fixed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That just looks like an old pile of meat on the forest floor

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A picture of its underside

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I am uneducated and curious, is it common practice to disturb these specimens?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

What you see here is the mushroom, basically the gonads of the organism (technically the “fruiting body”, something that is there to spread the spores). The bulk of the fungus is inside the dead tree, putting out digestive juices and eating it.

There’s no real harm to it to take it out. Or to use a knife and take a piece of it. It’s common practice to use porous bags to carry them so you’re helping it spread the spores around as you’re foraging.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Really cool thanks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It had broken off of that log before we found it. It was all dried out and was surprisingly light. I would not normally disturb something this extraordinary, but it seemed harmless given the circumstances.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

something disgusting off one of those dermatology tv shows

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Ewwww, a tree scab!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Idk that kind of looks like woman to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Reishi messes me up something awful. Strongest and weirdest (definitely not good weird) reaction to a tea I have ever had.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

No. It's more like a weird sedative.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A friend of mine says it helps with her epilepsy, but in general I don't buy into the "health" claims

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Placebo is a powerful non-drug.