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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

There's a good joke here, but I'll be damned if I'm smart enough to know what is

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I am also not smart but I'm guessing there's a mushroom named for Gandalf (the name in the last panel, the cap in the second panel). And it's a saprotroph (sp? wood eater?). And it's something else that I don't understand. Pretty sure a bivalve is a mussel.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Found a picture of it and looks like the cap on gandalfs head might not be the mushroom in the meme https://scd.landcareresearch.co.nz/Specimen/PDD%20106954

I suspect it was named after gandalf because it seems to live in New Zealand.

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