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Mega-mushroom a savory stunner in Mexico (HUGH 'room!!! 41-lb!)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/10/07 | AP

Posted on 07/10/2007 1:30:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AFP) - A more than 20-kilo (41-lb) mushroom has been picked in a forest in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas, university

The white mushroom, macrocybe titans, measured a towering 70 cm (27 in) tall, was found near Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, according to the Southern Border University Center.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: environment; mexico; mushroom; stunner
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This hand out from Colegio de la Frontera Sur(CFS) shows a man holding a 20kg (41lbs) white mushroom at a coffee farm of Chiapas state, Mexico, near the border with Guatemala, where it was discovered.(AFP/CFS-HO/File)


1 posted on 07/10/2007 1:30:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Can you eat it?


2 posted on 07/10/2007 1:31:49 PM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: caver

Not in one sitting.


3 posted on 07/10/2007 1:32:23 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: caver

Not sure, I’m checking,, probably not in one sitting, I reckun. ;-)


4 posted on 07/10/2007 1:33:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... For want of a few good men, a once great nation was lost.)
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Macrocybe titans
http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/mcybe.html


5 posted on 07/10/2007 1:34:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... For want of a few good men, a once great nation was lost.)
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To: BJClinton

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.


6 posted on 07/10/2007 1:37:41 PM PDT by agent_delta (I AM ANYBODY)
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To: agent_delta

You should see the size of the patty that it grew in. :)


7 posted on 07/10/2007 1:40:00 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is the Democrat's George Galloway?)
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To: agent_delta

"You're gonna' need a bigger bowl."

8 posted on 07/10/2007 1:40:51 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Sorry, paddy.


9 posted on 07/10/2007 1:41:42 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is the Democrat's George Galloway?)
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To: 1rudeboy
"You're gonna' need a bigger bowl."

LOL LOL Good one ...

10 posted on 07/10/2007 1:51:12 PM PDT by DancesWithCats
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To: TigersEye

ping


11 posted on 07/10/2007 1:54:03 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: 1rudeboy

You’re gonna need a bigger pizza!


12 posted on 07/10/2007 1:54:53 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: NormsRevenge

13 posted on 07/10/2007 2:21:59 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Constitution Day

Shroomage Ping


14 posted on 07/10/2007 2:23:13 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: agent_delta

Darn druggies. Smoking shrooms, shooting up hash, snorting pot etc etc


15 posted on 07/10/2007 2:28:33 PM PDT by Dinsdale
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To: Dinsdale

Yeah - you tell ‘em.


16 posted on 07/10/2007 2:53:19 PM PDT by agent_delta (I AM ANYBODY)
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To: NormsRevenge

"Curses...someone found my vacation home in Southern Mexico..."

17 posted on 07/10/2007 4:19:56 PM PDT by JRios1968 (Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
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To: NormsRevenge

18 posted on 07/10/2007 5:05:36 PM PDT by lowbridge (If You’re Gonna Burn Our Flag, Wrap Yourself in It First /No Oil for Pacifists)
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To: caver
Can you eat it?

More importantly, can you smoke it?

19 posted on 07/10/2007 5:06:14 PM PDT by lowbridge (If You’re Gonna Burn Our Flag, Wrap Yourself in It First /No Oil for Pacifists)
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To: 1rudeboy

Or a bigger steak...


20 posted on 07/10/2007 5:27:27 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
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