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Old 30-10-2008, 03:55 PM
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BBC NEWS | England | Berkshire | Erupting mushrooms lift driveway
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I've seen Inkycaps lift up hard compacted gravel and even tarmac. How does such a soft thing do it?
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That is so difficult to believe , but the evidence is in the photo's! How on earth were the fungi strong enough to do that?
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Not quite in the same league, but I can remember being amazed that these little fellas had 'forced' their way through a compacted semi-metalled roadway



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P.S. Some doubt has since been shed on my ID of this species and it may well be Inocybe lacera - any views?
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Old 31-10-2008, 09:47 AM
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CJO - Abstract - Is <em>Phallus impudicus</em> a mycological giant?
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