What's this?

[PODonnell]

My proposal for a game. In short post a photo, let everyone guess what it is, post the answer the next day. It needs to stay PG-13 of course.

I stumbled across this photo while cleaning out memory disks for an upcoming trip.

 

[pc_assassin]

Shells

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[PODonnell]

Shells

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Nice try, but no cookie for you

 

[LivingAngryCheese]

Anemone

 

[PODonnell]

Anemone

Nope, nice try, it's something far more terrestrial than either of the last two guesses.

 

[pc_assassin]

The sky

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[PODonnell]

*scratches head* nope
Here's an un-cropped photo that should make it a bit easier.

 

[pc_assassin]

Reef?

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[pizzawolf14]

I believe that is a fungus of some sort growing on a mossy log

 

[PODonnell]

I believe that is a fungus of some sort growing on a mossy log

Ding, Ding, Ding, we have a winner. More specifically It's a Saprophytic bracket fungus in the family Laetiporous. Commonly known as chicken of the woods. This particular specimen is my favorite find of last years foray. Pulled about 20 pounds of it from this site.

A good cooking mushroom though far better if harvested off of hardwood. This particular one was on an old pine, nurse log. But I did get several nice meals out of it and the rest got dried to be used as dye.

I also spiked a couple of broken birch with wedges of flesh and am crossing my fingers as to what I may find over the next few years.

 

[pizzawolf14]

Ding, Ding, Ding, we have a winner. More specifically It's a Saprophytic bracket fungus in the family Laetiporous. Commonly known as chicken of the woods. This particular specimen is my favorite find of last years foray. Pulled about 20 pounds of it from this site.

A good cooking mushroom though far better if harvested off of hardwood. This particular one was on an old pine, nurse log. But I did get several nice meals out of it and the rest got dried to be used as dye.

I also spiked a couple of broken birch with wedges of flesh and am crossing my fingers as to what I may find over the next few years.

Ooohhh interesting! I've always wanted to get into botany and things of the like but I can never find the time to properly educate myself on it. Not really a fan of poisoning myself

I suppose it's my turn to scrounge a hardly identifiable picture from my computer now?

 

[PODonnell]

One of my hobbies..... culinary mushrooms can be rather expensive so I'm working on learning to identify them.... at this point I limit myself to a few easily identified species that have no...... um..... evil cousins.......

If really interested I'd suggest you do a websearch for a local mycological group...... they are pretty wide spread..... and this can be a dangerous hobby.

regarding who gets to put up the next photo, Hadn't really made a rule, but that'd be nice. If you don't have one I'll see if I can find something interesting.

 

[pizzawolf14]

Well, here goes,

 

[PODonnell]

Reminds me a bit of human skin..... is it a highly zoomed image of say a forearm?

 

[pizzawolf14]

Nope, got this when I played a similar game with a bunch of people in a group message a few months ago and such was my first guess too.

 

[ThomazM]

Well, here goes,

Is that a walnut?

 

[pizzawolf14]

Is that a walnut?

Yep

 

[ThomazM]

Yep

I guess it's my turn then:

What's this?

 

[pizzawolf14]

I'm dying...

That IS Mr Bean, right?

 

[LivingAngryCheese]

A face