Nightkiller Demonslime
I'm back on the fungi again because there do seem to be lots of them about at the moment, even allowing for the fact that it's September. Here are some tiny and delightful ones on an old tree-trunk near Kettlewell in the Yorkshire Dales, placed there by fairies:
Aaaah! And here's a big ugly brute of a thing that sprung from nowhere in our garden in Leeds, placed there by Old Nick.
Errrrgh! First it looked like a white egg pushing through the ground.
Then it did this:
Then it did THIS!
Within just a day or two, it opened out and its cap dripped black sticky stuff of exceptional blackness and stickiness, as though auditioning for a horror movie.
Thanks to the wonder of the Internet I now know it's called a Shaggy Ink-Cap, a name which I feel is far too tame for it.
Nightkiller Demonslime is my first suggestion. It's outside this window. I'm worried that it will try to get in.
posted by Daphne at 8:17 pm
2 Comments:
well there you are you see; it looks like the Mushroom From The Black Lagoon, but it's edible [particularly nice with fish apparently].
And as further proof of the axiom that if it looks like a mushroom it's more likely to kill you, it's cousin the Common Ink-Cap, looks smoother and generally more wholesome, but will rip your bag out if consumed when you've had any alcohol in the past week, or in the following weeks.
I think the only possible advantage in eating something that looks like THAT is to eat it before it eats you.
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