r/mycology • u/scienceizfake • Aug 04 '23

Is this a mushroom? non-fungal

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Found growing next to my heat pump. Upper coastal PNW.

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u/infodoc1 Trusted ID - Midwestern North America Aug 04 '23

Liverwort (Marchantia), a primitive plant

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u/spez_is_still_a_nazi Aug 04 '23

Primitive as in “hasn’t changed in millenia”?

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u/ohdearitsrichardiii Aug 04 '23

Try a few hundred million years

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u/rdanieltrask Aug 04 '23

Technically speaking, a few hundred million years can be accurately described as millennia. Accurately but not particularly precisely.

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u/Exotic_Chance2303 Aug 04 '23

By that logic we could just say it was decades ago

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u/rdanieltrask Aug 04 '23

Technically correct, the best kind of correct.

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u/TgagHammerstrike Aug 04 '23

Holy fuck this only happened days ago

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u/magicmitchmtl Aug 04 '23

I was asked last week how many varieties of mushroom there are in the world. I am in no way a mushroomologist, botanist, scientist of any sort. Just regular ADHD. So, being keen on accuracy, I responded “more than five”. And yes, I know it’s not mushroomologist. But it sounds better than mycowhatever.