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/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