Скачать или смотреть Lobster mushroom / Hypomyces lactifluorum

The lobster mushroom fungus is an exciting one, especially since it's not the only fungus in the video! Its modus operandi is to parasitize a mushroom in the Russula or Lactarius genus. It then hijacks the spore producing mechanisms of its host to manufacture its own spores. In doing so it turns its host orange, and finally changes the surface of the mushroom by creating strange contortions.

The footage is ridiculously unique - its dazzlingly white spore print creates a canvas that insects then scuttle through. Amazing! The interaction between the contrasting brown spore print from the neighbouring chicken fat mushroom (Suillus americanus) is also a treat.

The lobster and chicken fat mushrooms are both edible, although I haven't tried either yet.

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/hypomyc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomyce...
http://mushroom-collecting.com/mushro...
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fun...