Sunday, October 10, 2004

This is not California

The mushroom shown below is growing on Martha's Vineyard, although based on my reading of a super site about mushrooms, www.mykoweb.com, this grows in California and not 3000 miles to the east. Its offical name is omphalotus olivascens. Do you remember what omphalos means?

1 comment:

R J Adams said...

Merriam-Webster defines it as 'navel', a 'central point', grammatically a noun.
Usually found in California? Is this further evidence of global warming? Perhaps George Bush should see the photograph! Nah! He's probably just want Laura to cook it for his tea....