r/oddlysatisfying • u/SystematicApproach • 2d ago
These various species of mushrooms growing
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u/Zalpha 2d ago
Mushrooms blow my mind because they start off with these like microscopic spores that grow into these huge things, that are like a trillion times bigger than how they started off their lives. It is miraculous and wondrous.
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u/UWO_Throw_Away 2d ago
That’s us, too, if you think about it
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u/jnads 2d ago
Yeah, all the data to make a human is begins with one single cell.
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u/Im_At_Work_Damnit 2d ago
Well... a combination of two cells.
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u/Content-Sun2928 2d ago
Which become.....
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u/bout-tree-fitty 2d ago
Mushrooms are a closer relative to humans than they are to plants.
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u/Covert_Pudding 2d ago
I hate this fun fact more every time I hear it.
Mushrooms are cool but also a little distressing.
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u/skyfishgoo 2d ago
when you understand the ginormous network of "roots" that feed those fruit bodies, it makes a lot more sense how they seem to come out of nowhere.
its' because they are everywhere.
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u/funnyha_ha 2d ago
Fun fact, the spores can survive in space.
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u/sweetreat7 2d ago
I just imagined astronauts accidentally littering spores in space and having the mushrooms become an invasive species on another planet.
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u/MikesGroove 2d ago
To add, the mycelium network is so tightly woven that hundreds of miles of it can fit under every foot step in a forest.
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u/Crazy-Vehicle5954 2d ago
And seemingly overnight too.
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u/SadMasterpiece7019 2d ago
The structures themselves grow underground over a period of days. When it's time, they basically just inflate those structures with water. That's why they seem to pop up out of nowhere.
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u/Forsaken_legion 2d ago
Biology is fascinating. One of the many reasons why I love it is exactly what you said. If our education system just allowed science to be taught more practical and fun. I would like to believe that there would be so many more students that would major in Biology.
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u/Versipilies 2d ago
At the point of emergence of a mushroom cap, it can actually be strong enough to break concrete
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u/Fruit_Tart44c 2d ago
I've seen it! I can't remember the kind, but it broke thru the edge of asphalt near my car. Two or 3 pieces were lifted around it.
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u/frobscottler 1d ago
An amanita muscaria emerged under a ~35 lb. statue I have in the garden and knocked it over!
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u/MrsSalmalin 2d ago
You started as a single cell, after a sperm and egg fused! Pretty incredible journey too :)
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u/ChocoPuddingCup 2d ago edited 2d ago
And the fact that mushrooms are more closely related to animals than they are to plants.
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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 2d ago
1 of the 5 branches of life, and genetically closer to animals than plants.
They are so weird. Genetically closer to animals than plants. Some are very posinous. Some are spicy but in a different way than peppers. Dont need sunlight. Can make you trip balls or turn ants into zombies.
If I were to pick an alien species it'd be mushrooms. Spiders look creepy but they eat things just like I do. Mushrooms have this insanely large network that acts like an inside out stomach and has piggybacked on plant root systems that they consume. Like, they learned how to farm trees. They reproduce by throwing a bunch of shit into the wind and communicate similar to electrical wires.
They freak me out a little.
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u/Natiak 2d ago
Imagine your surprise when you discover spores of psychedelic mushrooms are resilient enough to survive interstellar travel intact, and are used to induce the Genesis of consciousness in biological organizms in suitable environments throughout the universe.
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u/ni_hao_butches 2d ago
Dry cast iron on medium heat. Add butter and salt. Sautée for a few minutes. Add to toast.
Either debate God, die, or taste umami.
Enjoy.
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u/PVetli 2d ago
Yeah #5 looks extra yummy
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u/Tessandmae 2d ago
#10 too.
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u/dyereva 2d ago
As weird as it seems, #5 is probably an "ink cap" of some kind. Many species can be safely consumed, but you have to pick and cook them before they start to disintegrate into black goo
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u/dm_me_kittens 1d ago
Yes! This species is commonly called the Shaggy Ink Cap, and before it starts melting, it can be eaten. When I moved into my house, I turned the monoculture backyard lawn into a mess of wood chips and let the natives go wild. I also transplanted some of the mycorrhizal medium I found in a local pine forest into my backyard to enrich the soil. In the summer, I have hundreds of shaggy ink caps popping up everywhere. <3
Nature is so fucking cool. I'm glad there are people like you who enjoy it too.
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u/scriptmonkey420 2d ago
If I recall Coprinus is edible before they start getting any black on them. Still wouldn't try it out with the ones in my yard. They do create a neat looking fairy ring in the late fall though.
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u/Nomiss 2d ago
Inky caps are edible. But if you have alcohol with them it will be a bad time.
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u/teos61 2d ago
"Either debate God, die, or taste umami."
Or, in the most fortuitous of circumstances, be able to experience all 3, in different stages.
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u/themikecampbell 2d ago
One of them you need to feed it to a Reindeer or Elk and wait for them to pee.
Then debate God. But it’s implied, I think.
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u/rolandofeld19 2d ago
Honestly cant tell if this is real or not because someone figured out how to milk, dry, and smoke toad skin extract or whatever .... Humans are something else.
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u/themikecampbell 2d ago
> Indigenous Siberian and Sámi shamans historically fed Amanita muscaria to reindeer, who metabolize the mushroom's toxins while excreting the psychoactive compound (muscimol) in their urine. Drinking this filtered urine allowed shamans to experience intense hallucinations without suffering from the mushroom's severe physical toxicity.
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u/Enlightened_Gardener 2d ago
Nah its real. Its like ayahuasca - the Shamans have a special diet that helps to offset the horrible physical side-effects, but you have to follow it for six weeks or so to get the best benefits; so all the people coming down from America for a “guided trip” spend 8 hours hallucinating and vomiting their guts up.
Same as Morning Glory, Diviners Sage, Nutmeg etc etc - a lot of these things are hallucinogens because they’re actually poisoning you.
What fascinates me is how Shamanic practicioners worked out a diet that would help the monoamine oxidase inhibitors in the ayuhuasca vine do its thing.
Mind you, if you’re into the whole plant/animal spirit magic thing, the simple answer is that the plant itself told you how it should be used.
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u/perton 2d ago
To be fair, in regards to Morning Glory, I wouldn’t say that you’re hallucinating because they’re poisoning you.
The LSA handles the hallucinogenic bit, it’s just that other compounds in the seeds happen to be poisoning you at the same time, lol, though there is a chance I’m remembering incorrectly
Source: me, some dude who’s been fascinated by all things psychedelic (and otherwise mind altering) for half my life, having spent far too much time on Erowid and countless other websites, articles, books, etc (not to mention the personal experiences)
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u/HolidayContest5081 2d ago
Not an Australian, I see!
We’ve got a bit of a complicated relationship with mushrooms at the moment.
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u/Throwaway-tan 2d ago
I mean it's pretty foolish to eat something called a "Death Cap"
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u/crenax 2d ago
Option 4: become the leader of a cool little island town that’s gonna be the next Martha’s Vineyard, and definitely not cursed.
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u/Oograr 2d ago
The mushroom at 0:25 looks like something from the Alien movies
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u/boggle_head_question 2d ago
Aseroe rubra, commonly known as the anemone stinkhorn, sea anemone fungus, and starfish fungus. It's a stinkhorn, and boy... does it really smell.
We get them all over in GA. Predominately after fresh mulch is put in the garden.
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u/ExtentNo7951 2d ago
I've seen them in my yard a few times but there was never any noticeable smell. I have the underachiever stinkhorns apparently.
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u/GimmieGummies 2d ago
It really is kinda creepy. Creepy in a wildly beautiful way, but creepy nonetheless
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u/HereIGoAgain_1x10 2d ago
Ya I love how all of them were like "oh what an interesting mushroom like thing" then spawns a demon from Hell
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u/juice_in_my_shoes 2d ago
R/mildlyinfuriating
It cuts off just as the mushroom achieves it's final form!
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u/KingoftheKeeshonds 2d ago
Incredible photography. Just amazing. I had to save this post for showing friends.
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u/Heavy_Cake_9492 2d ago
I miss him.
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u/LickingSmegma Mamaleek are king 2d ago
Well, all these clips are of mushrooms' reproductive parts, so yeah...
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u/DaILLezt 2d ago
You should call him lol
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u/deomc1294 2d ago
AWE no trippy hippy music?
https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohs4hJDOW88QsXDwY
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u/iJuddles 2d ago
I also wanted music, went with the instrumental middle of Radiohead “There, There”. Mysterious, evolving, not trippy.
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u/LiftingCode 2d ago
Jackson's Slender Caesar
Dung Cannon
Bridal Veil Stinkhorn
Golden-Scruffy Collybia
Shaggy Ink Cap
Some sort of slime mold?
Yellow-Netted Stinkhorn
Parasol
Fly Agaric
Anemone Stinkhorn
Chestnut
Mycena Illuminans?
Another Golden-Scruffy Collybia with some sort of mold infection?
Hare's Foot Inkcap?
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u/bryce_lynch27 2d ago
Which ones of these can I eat?
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u/the-meanest-boi 2d ago
I believe the red with white dots is amanita muscaria, it is edible if prepared correctly, oh and also it will have you tasting sounds and smelling colours (kinda of an exaggeration, but also maybe not)
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u/Viechiru 2d ago
The first person who ate mushroom: " look at this funny looking umbrella plant, lets eat it"
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u/Breatnach 2d ago
Who looks at those and decides that they want to eat something as disgusting as that?
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u/Dat_Boi_Henke 2d ago
Mushrooms are so cool. They can be some of the most alien looking life we have on this planet.
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u/Rick-D-99 1d ago
Anybody have a good supercut of this kind of photography that doesn't end too soon?
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u/open_formation 2d ago
Does anyone know what the function is of those structured skirts at 8s or 19s?
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u/adzm 2d ago
The indusium. Probably multiple things: catch the wind, a place for insects to land, a ladder for insects to crawl, a way to visually attract insects. All in service or furthering the spread of spores.
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u/TheColorblindSnail 2d ago
That one shouldn't exist.
I dont need to say which because im sure you thought the same thing
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u/xtothewhy 2d ago
The 27 second mark one is creepy af. Everything else looks like kind of somewhat penisy in the time lapse.
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u/Possible-Estimate748 2d ago
They grow so weird!
Esp the one around the 0:28 mark where it looks like it's growing from all directions
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u/__wildwing__ 2d ago
Oooooh, pretty skirts!!!
What the hell is that Stranger Things mushroom?!?
Wait… was that mold on a fungi?
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u/sumknowbuddy 2d ago
Wait… was that mold on a fungi?
Yes. In their lifespan they generally succumb to mould, bacteria or degradation due to environmental changes
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u/stinkyfootjr 2d ago
There’s a reason fungi have there own kingdom, you know, like to classify all living things like with the plant kingdom, and animal kingdom.
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u/KlatuuBarradaNicto 2d ago
Fungi are so damn cool. I had no idea until I started reading about them.
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u/UncomfyUnicorn 2d ago
I wish I had the tech for things like this. I’d get shots of mushrooms and blooming flowers and stuff.
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u/johnnywarp 2d ago
How do people make these long time-lapses? How long do the batteries on those cameras last?
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u/Loud_Boysenberry_736 2d ago
Those are so pretty! But I had forgotten how even seeing stuff on my screen can get me itchy.
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u/dannyzaplings 2d ago
The cuts are too fast. Let me sit and enjoy it. Speaking of which, watch Fantastic Fungi.
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u/PorridgeandFeathers 2d ago
Enchanting! Admittedly I yelped at the stinkhorn; the others were comparatively so graceful
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u/CitricBase 2d ago
I'm just sitting here thinking about what an insane amount of work it must have been to film this, only for OP to steal the entire thing. Not just taking karma and views etc., but even going so far as to strip out your name entirely.
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u/DisastrousConcept210 2d ago
They just know what their final form is and that's gotta be nice to not have to think about it
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u/Bussamove86 2d ago
Love how a couple are just like deploy mushroom net.