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The spring rains have brought out the mushrooms.
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p295/...2ijwah.jpg
These look suspiciously like morels.
Do morels grow here in Puna?
If they're not morels, what are they?
It looks like I may have to defend them from rats and/or mongooses [mongeese?].
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Fred Hemmis at the UH is the local fungi expert. suggest you contact him.
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that's OK. I've gotten it ID'd.
They are probably a type of netted stinkhorn.
I didn't think they were morels.
They just look very similar until you take a very close look at them.
Plus, I don't think we have the type of climate morels need around here.
Maybe up on Mauna Kea or Loa where they get lower winter type temps.
Here are better photos:
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p295/...ayygyn.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p295/...tnhwdx.jpg
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Yes, definitely a stinkhorn. The 'net' is called an indusium.
They don't look anything like morels fyi.
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mahalo for correcting me, rainy jim.
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I saw those same shrooms described here, stinkhorn, in my yard for the first time ever this year. Didn't know what they were so squashed them so the dogs didn't eat them. They didn't look edible, but the "net" sure is interesting! I would love it if some morels find me!
Somebody was selling some oyster mushrooms to the vendors at the Farmer's Market by Luquin's a couple weeks ago. I think they were growing them themselves. Sounds like a worthy (and tasty) pastime!
