Basket fungus

Ileodictyon cibarium

Habitat:

near pine trees

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43 Comments (1–25)

grade-78-science1 7 years ago

They called Ileodictyon cibarium, is a saprobic species of fungus in the family Phallaceae. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it commonly known as the basket fungus or the white basket fungus, alluding to the fruit bodies that are shaped somewhat like a round or oval ball with interlaced or latticed branches. While the immature volvae are edible, the mature fruit body is foul-smelling and covered with a slime layer containing spores on the inner surfaces.

Leonardo Castro 11 years ago

Nature is sassy. Amazing!!!

mcaul6515 11 years ago

Soooo cool!

Bhagya Herath 11 years ago

wow amazing

Adarsha B S 12 years ago

Ultimate !!!

DanielHernández 12 years ago

wow!

TheSmartBilli 12 years ago

lovely

LoisStacey 12 years ago

That is cool!! I've never seen anything like that before.

pmbagga 12 years ago

very well done!

MayraSpringmann 12 years ago

Wow!!! This is fantastic!!!

MarceloCamacho 12 years ago

Incrível!!

arlanda 12 years ago

Dear JulieEdwards, youre spotting reminds me of fullerenes.
Richard Buckminster Fuller was a noted architectural modeler who popularized the geodesic dome which consisted in adding pentagons to a layer of hexagons in order to obtain curvature. Later on, Smalley and Kroto got the Nobel price in 1996 for the discovery of fullerenes where the hexagonal layer of graphite is rounded in buckyballs by pentagons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene). There is a lot of mathematics, crystallography a symmetry in livfe. Please, consider to add your Basket fungus spotting to the Life and Mathematics mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/9071...