take my advice, don't try to "help" the dorsals on brachys. every time i try i end up splitting the dorsal at the tip. 
pic from prior my destructive fiddling.
pic from prior my destructive fiddling.
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mrhappyrotter
Grand Chupacabra
Give it a whiff. Let me know what you think. These smell like barf and apple peels to me. Or maybe rancid cheese. But I love the flowers otherwise, and of course the foliage is gorgeous.
Interesting! I always forget to give new blooms a sniff. I smell a very subtle whiff of wet leather shoes.
Tom-DE
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I have no idea what wet leather shoes smell like
...but I remember that I used to be able to afford a pair of $500 shoes, now I can only afford a pair of cheap slippers...Serious tho, it is nice but I didn't know it was fragrant...good to know.
i live in pacific northwest so i am unfortunately very familiar with the smell of old wet shoes. heh!I have no idea what wet leather shoes smell like
Serious tho, it is nice but I didn't know it was fragrant...good to know.
Nice one
I am sorry for your troubles and hope you can get some decent shoes. I got a $400 pair of boots from a thrift store yesterday for $10. I no longer shop for shoes at regular retail outlets. I am hard on shoes and boots due to my mushroom foraging and need good quality footwear due to injuries. You can’t always find good new or lightly used/reparable shoes in thrift stores but if you visit multiple stores as convenient, you will, especially in a major city. Most of the shoes I get from thrift stores are, or seem, new; I avoid worn soles and never buy anything dirty. I also have a good friend who lives rural and needs a size 14 and at least once a year I’m able to pick him up something good.
Curious; what “help” are you trying to provide? This flower is lovely. The uniform dotting is particularly sweet on this one. They’re not meant to be flat. I hope you can celebrate this perfect flower as the natural evolutionary achievement it is.take my advice, don't try to "help" the dorsals on brachys. every time i try i end up splitting the dorsal at the tip.
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Tom-DE
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LOL! That was a joke... I can't even dare to think about getting my shoes in the thrift shop...nothing wrong with it but just not for me.
I can ask you about wild mushrooms someday. We have a lot of them on our property year-round, especially in the fall. I know nothing about them but I am sure some might be edible.
I tried to pop and flatten the dorsal. I know! I know! Super dumb move. I've learned my lesson with the butchering of this little lady.
I'm always happy to talk mushrooms. Identifying from photos can be tricky; here's a link with helpful tips to give it the best chance. I do work for various poison-control centers and am often tasked with identifying a mushroom from vomitus so with decent photos it's usually a comparative piece of cake! Autumn is the time for most of the best mushrooms, depending on where you live. I just returned from some weeks in PNW and that was pretty intense; their stuff can go through much of the winter. In Chicago, we still have a fair amount of stuff fruiting but we had a dry fall so it wasn't great. Northern Wisconsin is where I do most of my stuff and it's completely nuts typically from end of July through September.
Aw I'm really sorry you had to learn the hard way. I love the way some slippers provide a cuppy hood to shelter the precious pollinia.I tried to pop and flatten the dorsal. I know! I know! Super dumb move. I've learned my lesson with the butchering of this little lady.
I love mushrooms! Or at least I love hunting for them so I can take pics. Do you have a blog or photo site you'd like to share? I bet you have some good stories! I used to go to mycology fairs all the time just so I could attend lectures and see semi-fresh correctly identified samples in real life, but stopped going after it got trendy with the micro-dose lovin' gummy poppin' Instagram crowd.
