UK Fungi Get Protection Strategy

Why? Did his S.I.S. guys walk off the job?

Aaarrrghhh! Catchy tune, that - thanks, hadn't heard it in ages! Down House is a lovely place, thanks for that, too.

http://www.lyricsdomain.com/10/jefferson_airplane/white_rabbit.html

That got me mind ticking >>>>George Benson>>>>>>oh crap,,,,,,,I'm going all maudlin !!!!!! !!!!!. Not really, at all !!!

Your...aah...mind, shall we call it?...it isn't much under your own control, is it?

This thread - just wondering - what has it to do with this lot?

That pic was obviously taken with the Royal Flash. They don't normally admit ordinary photons in from outside the palace. "Too common."

And likely too dangerous. Don't most fungi prefer dark, damp places? I've heard that for years.

"Don't most fungi prefer dark, damp places?"

They do indeed, and these are no exception (although you'd think they believe they are^[1]). Insofar as your knowledge of the care and feeding of fungi goes, you've evidently been talking to the Groom of the Stool^[2].

_{[1] The Royal Flash is special in that the photons emerge very slowly, in procession, coronation-style.}

_{[2] Kudos to Kris for turning me on to this hilarious link!}

_{I've got my tinfoil hat on, just so Enviroman doesn't get inside my head no more.}

_{ps - Mrs K prefers Sean Bean to that Flashman dude. No problem, she can't resist me.}

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yGckrfrQRls&feature=related (check out the players)

Damn, now you lot got me all teary and bleary eyed.........think I'll grow my hair long again, go back to the land, maintain a granola constitution.........._{^{I want the old days back}}

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T3lDZ9MPFLs&feature=related

Can I finnish you off ?

OK, now you've done it. Now where did I put those beads............

.....I'm not falling into that one !

To save myself, I'll try a bit of topicality. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present, for your delectation and delight.......the humongous fungus, worlds biggest organism. _{I'm so glad my speed induced spelling errors have stopped !} It's a whopper !

Maybe not the largest - the creosote bush is a clonal shrub, and it is hypothesized that regularly spaced plants covering many hundreds of square miles of desert may actually be one plant.

http://www.biology.ed.ac.uk/research/groups/jdeacon/desertecology/creosote.htm

Aspen trees are also clonal, and colonies can spread for perhaps miles, but are not likely to cover more than one mountainside. But as far as the big fungus you linked to goes, I guess it just mushroomed, didn't it?

So you've got the biggest bush, and I've got the most fungus ! I don't if I should be happy for both of us, or seek profesional help ! Does mangrove have a claim in any of this ?

Both are huge, yes, but are they British? If not they'll have to submit the appropriate immigration forms before being considered for protection under UK's new strategy.

Or, you could simply buy them all condoms.

Might sprout a new colony of condominiums.

... or the Mother Lode of material from which condoms are made: condominium.

Unless otherwise involved that's really stretching it.......

Maybe not... the lactarius shroom oozes with the stuff, false morels produce something resembling rocket fuel........ you might be onto something.

This is a lot of smut !

OK, hands up anyone who didn't look ! I could have posted that 'On-topic', but this is far more fun. Keeps out the lazy arses who can't partake of a giggle.

There is a fungus amongus!

I mould enough to deal with it .

Are you suggesting that those who can't are full of shitaake?

Is there a morel to this story? (Sorry, oyster things up a bit sometimes, don't I?)

You're a real fungi.

And this is a very yeasty exchange!

As ever, it all comes back to beer ! I nearly gave you guys GA's for some of your info below, but then I thought "Nah, I can never post them up to on-topic". Ha-ha ! Spore show on my part, I know.

It's been brewing since yeast became self aware

Mangroves don't seem to fit in this category:

http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/plants/mangrove_trees.htm

They DO have some mighty remarkable seedlings though!

Yeah, I read the wiki on it but wasn't sure. Florida wasn't the setting for Southern Comfort , but it can't be that different in parts ? Do you get fungi in the 'glades (apart from in yer boots) ?

A swamp is a swamp, and yes there are fungi in the 'Glades. But there ain't nothin' like that movie anywhere in the States that I've ever been - glad I missed it!

I can't believe all swamps are the same - it's a bit of a cover-all term isn't it ?

So......do you have endangered fungi in the states ? This is yet another thread where Brit Media is the source (OK, it's a Brit story, but it happens even with American stuff), there don't seem to be enough direct American feeds on many blogs.

When I was a kid, we'd often go collecting mushrooms. They were all over the place. I guess that's all gone thanks to chemical farming.. I haven't got the skill to know which stuff is safe, but many places in the UK are good hunting grounds for those who know what they're doing. Some people make a living collecting the exotic stuff and sending it up to London restaurants. As far as I can tell, they do it in an environmentally friendly way, not overdoing any given area. Having said that, I'm not sure you could over-pick mushrooms (?).

I didn't mean to imply all swamps are the same - they're not. But they all have some similar characteristics.

We do have at least one fungus that's probably endangered, for the same reason, harvesting, that you mentioned. The morel is much sought after, and you can overdo it - if there aren't enough left to mature and drop spores, next year's crop may not appear at all. We used to get them by the grocery sack (paper ones) when I was a kid. Nowadays there are people who make a living hauling them to restaurants and markets, so they are becoming scarce, I'm told. Most varieties can be cultivated, but I've never heard of anyone doing that successfully with morels (see below).

OK, even though you probably don't care, I'll give you a GA for that one Ducky. It was protecting fungus related, good info, and you used a very impressive word that I can't even pronounce.

England.....I N G L A N D......England....as in Angleterre, comme ca?

^{who were the Engs anyway? and why are they protecting their shrooms? very suspicious.}

There's a sort or 'er' in the middle of it, but you've set me thinking on weightier matters; I could be a right angle and not know it . There's probably some Jute and all sorts of weird stuff.

Been watching some of the archaeology coming out of Merry 'ol. Fascinating stuff. The GPR mapping is amazing!

When I was a kid I found some tiny Roman coins, tiles and pottery shards coming out've a construction dig. My father tried to get the dig stopped. Didn't exactly endear himself with the town council and was ignored. Bit differrent today....gratifying to see.

Roman coins in Ontario?!?

Yeah.....I brought 'em with me from England.

So you started in England and emigrated to Canada, is that it? Would make more sense that way...

Acute angle is likely debatable, but obtuse angle for sure...

Are you being complementary ?

RIGHT!

My sign says, "Will act cute for nuts", not "acute" !

D'yer suppose when Cleopatra was floatin' down the Nile on 'er royal barge, that she ever 'ad to worry 'bout bein' attacked by a hypoteneuse? 'Orrible fearsome lookin' beasts they are!

It would all rest on Cleos' inclinations, don't you think?

Would if I could figure out a way to slip "isoceles" into a pun...otherwise, no.

I'm afraid you'd have to get the evereadies blessed first.

I'm not sure I'd be inclined

Crikey!

Thank God there's a saint for that now! er......anybody know which saint?

This should work ;

I'd rather two band aids and a cork than what ye suggest........brrrrrrrrrr.....shiver up the spine.........

St. Agnes of Rome is invoked for chastity - and sometimes Thomas Aquinas. Frankly, I think crocodile dung would do as much good...

I can get behind Aggies position but Tom.......ehhhhh.......that's another matter.

So it's all a croc then?

From my point of view, it's all a croc.

That certainly reasures the meaning of 'Great Minds Think Alike".

Contrast that with "Small Minds Think The Same".

Along that line of thought, I'm sure you've noted that as usual this thread has mushroomed in the "off-topic" post category. Not counting puns like this, I'd bet without looking that there are fewer than ¹/₃ "on-topic" posts here. We have no shame, have we?

True, but some of the on-topic stuff is good. The fact that it's hidden makes it better - forces the lazy humourless ones to take part.

Hopefully you don't have to cosine for nuts. I'd hate to see a squirrel get caught up in trapezoids.

Yes, that'd be a sin. Not to go off on a tangent, but how exactly does this protect British fungi, again? By keeping us too busy punning to go hunt 'em down?

I thought we were getting to the Root of the problem. Maybe it's a sine of the times.

With all of the hyphae and mycelia it takes to be an active fungus these days, it's a seven-day wonder anything at all gets done. But that's a different angle...

The official term in Canada is wetlands. All wetland and headwater areas are protected from development and are under the Conservation authority. Some delicate wetland ecosystems are also subject to no public access relying rather on educational tours, artsy types and birdwatchers to stay on the marked trails.