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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day 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] 9 points 1 day ago

It's not referring to a valve but rather the structures protecting the spore bearing tissue of the mushroom. Bivelangiocarpic means there are two veils protecting the spore bearing tissue until that matures. My source: https://davidmoore.org.uk/21st_century_guidebook_to_fungi_platinum/Ch12_04.htm

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] PapaStevesy 3 points 1 day ago

I don't technically get it either, but even so, "good" feels far too generous.