Lacarria masoniae growing from an opossum's carcass

Jan 25, 2020 6:53 PM

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Lacarria masoniae growing from an opossum carcass

It's like it's clutching a bouquet

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Noah’s picture made the front page!

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Yall read The Girl with all the Gifts??!! This reminds me of THAT

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Decay is an extant form of life

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this is amazing

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I got this for YOOOOOOOOUUU.....

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You can clearly see they've been plucked and placed there....

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This looks like an item you would find in Dark Souls or some shit

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Prey Slaughtered

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Circle of life. Beauty in death.

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You think thats metal? Saprotrophic fungi feeds on corpses: https://imgur.com">/2MPCySM">https://imgur.com/a/2MPCySM /a/dESAMIe

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Bouquet of death

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Serious Hannibal Lecter crap here.

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Is it deadly?

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"Your date will be magical, and full of death."

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LMFAO this was amazing

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Caduceus Clay.

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It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.

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Eat the mushroom and begin your quest

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Was,gonna upvote but you were at 69

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Nice

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Enough food to feed you for the rest of your life.

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Heard a plumber tried this once, and it seemed to work out for him....

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Do you want clickers? This is how you get clickers

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Are those poisonous? They look like they should be poisonous...

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They're not growing from there, they were placed. Look at the bottom...

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shut up its cool

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Good point!

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Came down here looking for this comment. They were clearly ripped off and placed in its paw. It's a gilled mushroom type fungus, not mold.

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If the mushrooms / fruiting bodies are that large, the underground mycelium is a LOT larger and sprouts mushrooms at multiple locations ...

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(sometimes in a circle known as fairy ring). There wouldn't be enough room for the mycelium to grow in such a tiny corpse. Nevermind those …

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few leftover shreds of meat. It's also far from an ideal growing medium for this type of fungus. They need loose soil or decomposing leaves.

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Nature is pretty metal

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Is Lacarria masoniae an instrument?

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Photo credit: Noah Siegel

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They're purple. Psychedelic?

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Dunno, but same genus as this edible variety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laccaria_laccata

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Deadass my favourite episode of the entire show.

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Loved this episode

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what episode is?

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and liquid drip fall was pretty dope animation

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Agreed

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That's fucken Metal af.

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That is fucking amazing.

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The corpse is trying to offer you something take it and eat it

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This some cursed shit

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That cat brought you flowers

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"I made you flowers, but I dieded..."

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Those skinny purple dicks better give me black panther powers.

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Disclaimer: do not accept gifts from corpses.

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Imagine if they got you super super high. Fuckin possum

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If I’ve learned one thing from fairy tales and mythology it’s that you *never* accept food from the underworld

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Why cause it will kill you and or take you there. Listen, if a far were to offer me a mushroom, you can bet I would isakai that bitch.

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AS THE PROPHECY FORETOLD!!!!

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… screamed the stable boy.

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“Join me,” you hear in a faint whisper behind you. You turn, but no one is there. ‘Just the wind,’ you think to yourself.

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You turn back to the carcass. You don’t remember its sunken eyes and toothy grin pointing directly at you, but it is.

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I press: "Kick the carcass head off."

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Don't tell him about the red situation

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And then out of nowhere *Shia Lebeouf

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I press "speak to the carcass"

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MAKE US WHOLE AGAIN

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Everything's a necromorph if your dead space enough. "ISAAC NO"

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Following. Write more!

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...go on. You're onto something here..

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He ate the mushrooms and died. Turns out

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Yeah, but they got him really ?????? high. That's how he was able to talk to you after he died.

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Do you want clickers? Cause I’m pretty sure that’s how you get clickers.

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I don't know what clickers are but I laughed none-the-less.

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Zombies from a game called state of decay. There made from a fungus. The fungus is real It makes ant zombies itl doesn’t wrk on ppl thankgod

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I believe you're thinking of the Cordyceps fungus group. Easy mistake.

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The zombies make click sounds in the game

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"Doesn't work on people"... yet.

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People

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