Observation 29386: Rhizopogon Fr. & Nordholm
When: 2009-12-02
Collection location: Big Branch, Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana, USA [Click for map]
Who: Chaz (tripper1445)
No specimen available
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| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 4.52 | 1 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 9.18 | 2 | (Noah) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
1.55 | 51.57% | |||||||
| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 4.52 | 1 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 5.35 | 1 | ||||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
1.32 | 44.13% | |||||||
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I did feel a little mind melding going on at the time.
By: Chaz (tripper1445)
2009-12-03 08:51:14 CST (-0600)
this is actually an egg
By: Danny Newman (myxomop)
2009-12-03 03:42:47 CST (-0600)
with a baby alien inside. Mankind humbly thanks you for unleashing the flesh-eating horde of Ridley Scott’s nightmares unto the world by dispersing these demon spores throughout your backyard.
That means that if you know the trees (probably conifers) nearby, we may be able to attach a species name to this Rhizopogon. Was Monterey pine nearby? Was another pine species nearby? My gut reaction is Rhizopogon roseolus or R. rubescens. If you find more, please dry some. Many (most?) Rhizopogons are edible. Larger ones can be sliced thin, dried, sprinkled with fine salt and seasonings, and eaten with dip like potato chips. R. rubescens can also reach quite large size: a single specimen in southern Oregon weighed nearly 2 pounds!