#strobilomyces strobilaceus

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Arcade feature #1: Beatrix Potter

Strobilomyces strobilaceus (Armitt Museum and Library)

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you are my new favourite tumblr person

a cruel question: what's your favourite fungus? or your top 2.2 to 3.8 million favourite species...

Aw, thanks, fellow tumblr person!

A cruel question indeed. I appreciate the alternative option for listening several million. 😆 But I think I can manage with three. No, four. No, two. I'll do two.

1. Black Trumpet (Craterellus fallax)

The first edible mushroom I ever foraged with a delightful goth aesthetic. It's pretty hard to mistake this mushroom for something else, but I was still terrified to eat it. First time round, anyway.

2. Old Man of the Woods (Strobilomyces strobilaceus... Or "floccopus" depending on who you ask, I think both are great)

Such a friendly shroom, and I'm always so happy to see it. And also boop it because it is very soft and boopable. It's like if a Newfoundland were a mushroom.

Thanks for asking!

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Old Man of the Woods - Strobilomyces strobilaceus

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A very old Old Man of the Woods - Strobilomyces strobilaceus

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Old Man of the Woods

Strobilomyces strobilaceus

(The mushroom on the left is cheating; it doesn't have to try to look like a mushroom.)

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An Old Man of the Woods lives just up the lane from his far flashier Suillus cousin

Old Man of the Woods - Strobilomyces strobilaceus

Painted Suillus - Suillus pictus

I have now eaten both and I must say: the Old Man is far tastier.

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A very large and proud Old Man of the Woods (Strobilomyces strobilaceus)

His woolly cap almost looks like ermine...

The coat of arms of the former Duchy of Brittany, blazoned "Ermine"

-Wikipedia, "Ermine"