There's a fungus known as dead man's fingers... because it can literally look like the fingers of a corpse bursting out of the ground.
There's a fungus known as dead man's fingers... because it can literally look like the fingers of a corpse bursting out of the ground.
You’re walking through the woods on a crisp, late October afternoon, smelling the sharp scent of decaying leaves and listening to the dry rustle of beech leaves in the breeze. You decide to take a break, sit on an old stump, munch an apple and observe this amazing world…but, what is that reaching up...
It just wants to touch your rusty spoons.
Ew! Hubert Cumberdale, you taste like soot and poo!
Reminds me of the hand monsters in elden ring
"Be wary of down, by the way try fire"
Heheh, my first thougth as well. Gives me the fingercreeps.
I had learned about these in the days of yore. Was doing gardening and found a small specimen growing at the base of my tree. Apparently they LOVE rotting wood...whelp
There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them
Look more like dead lady fingers to me.
Disappointed to find out they're toxic.
Not all that toxic, though. One mushroom forager website I saw was from a person who said that they used to recommend and enjoy them, but new information about their toxicity came out and they stopped eating them. 🤷♂️
Think they're inedible, rather than toxic/poisonous (the distinction as I understand it being that poisonous mushrooms will actively cause you harm, whereas inedible fungi have some other reason not to eat them, be it that they have the texture of wood as in this case, or a horrifically bitter flavour as with the bitter bolete).
Thanks, I hate it.