{"id":24,"date":"2006-11-18T22:09:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T08:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=24"},"modified":"2010-01-13T22:49:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T08:49:04","slug":"seven-pointed-red-mushroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/11\/seven-pointed-red-mushroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven-pointed red mushroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along our driveway terrace in the tea plantation area, where i had put some woodchips as mulch, i found this strange thing growing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00407-2.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00407-2_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was clearly a mushroom, but unlike any i have ever seen, with a 7-fold symmetry.  I immediately came in and googled with terms like &#8220;seven-pointed red mushroom fungus 7-fold&#8221;, but didn&#8217;t find it.  A few days later Deb found it.  It is called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aseroe_rubra\"><em>Aseroe rubra<\/em><\/a>, the starfish fungus or &#8220;sea anemone fungus&#8221;, an &#8220;unusual tropical member of the ornate stinkhorn family, widespread throughout the Hawaiian Islands and the south Pacific.&#8221;  The forms can be quite diverse, with anywhere from 5-fold to 12-fold symmetry in the pictures i&#8217;ve found online.  (See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mushroomexpert.com\/aseroe_rubra.html\">at mushroomexpert.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=Aseroe+rubra&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;pwst=1&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=images&amp;ct=title\">on google images<\/a>)  Supposedly it smells bad, but i didn&#8217;t smell anything from the ones on my terrace.  In any case, since tea can pick up subtle flavors from its environment, i&#8217;m not going to let any of these mushrooms grow on our farm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along our driveway terrace in the tea plantation area, where i had put some woodchips as mulch, i found this strange thing growing. It was clearly a mushroom, but unlike any i have ever seen, with a 7-fold symmetry. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/11\/seven-pointed-red-mushroom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}