Fungi or plants? Which are cooler

Dašarath · 09-01-2021, 05:41 AM

Poll. The most important debate since like yesterdays debate

Doog Lord · 09-01-2021, 05:53 AM

Most plants like flowers are boring as hell but then you've got Venus flytraps and those pitcher plants, one can kill insects and one can kill entire mice. Way cooler than some dumbass mushroom.

Doog Lord · 09-01-2021, 05:56 AM

Haha sorry that message was so edgy I just couldn't think of any other 'cool' plant.

Dave Miles · 09-01-2021, 07:19 AM

Both are pretty cool. I’d have to go with fungi since they’re more mysterious

Kane · 09-01-2021, 08:14 AM

https://www.earthrangers.com/top-ten...ooking-plants/

Dk why there's a Sea Urchin in there, other than the nickname. The rest are pretty neat though!

I've also never really cared about plants, but I saw some of these a while back (mother was growing plants for a wedding). They're called Red & White Wave Petunia's I think. They look like candy and are my favourite now:

Dašarath · 09-01-2021, 10:58 AM

that dragons blood tree though. trees are so fucking cool. i do love fungi and the giant fungi that used to dominate the earth. cool mint candy plant also

Plopilpy · 09-01-2021, 02:50 PM

Fungi can literally DRILL THROUGH ROCKS JUST BY USING INCREDIBLY STRONG HYPHAE. Also, they're the reason for sand. Those incredibly strong hyphae? In order to get nutrients from under rocks, that drilling through pulverized those rocks and in turn created sand.

Dave Miles · 09-01-2021, 04:04 PM

Cool info plop. I remember watching a documentary talking about before fungi evolved, entire forests would basically just turn to petrified stone because nature hadn’t yet developed a process to recycle/decay wood until those fun guys showed up

Dungeon Snake · 09-01-2021, 08:50 PM

Fungi are kind of cliche hippy shit, like whoaaaa far out trippy duuuude. Plants are actually way cooler, think about how nice it is to walk in an ancient misty forest full of gigantic old growth trees and the ground covered in luscious ferns. Imagine how nice the air smells in a place like that

Dave Miles · 09-02-2021, 04:15 AM

Good point. A lot of what makes mushrooms cool is just the environment in which you find them, usually in the forest. mushrooms on their own basically just look like dicks. I think I voted prematurely

Mr Mong · 09-02-2021, 04:27 AM

They also have cool names like destroying angel

VGCharacters · 09-02-2021, 05:15 AM

If you want a weird fungus, look no further than the common stinkhorn. Its scientific name is phallus impudicus, and when you see pictures of it, it's not hard to see why it's earned that name.

French Fry · 09-02-2021, 08:04 AM

Country girls make do.

I Am Your God · 09:32 PM

I'm siding with plants. There are many reasons why, but I'll just post one particular example here:

In relation to fungi, I personally feel rather vexed, but this moment from beloved Bob's Burgers helps a lot:

Dašarath · 09-02-2021, 07:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dungeon Snake

Fungi are kind of cliche hippy shit, like whoaaaa far out trippy duuuude. Plants are actually way cooler, think about how nice it is to walk in an ancient misty forest full of gigantic old growth trees and the ground covered in luscious ferns. Imagine how nice the air smells in a place like that

yea but if you want mystical and magical. giiiaaaaannntt mushroooooms

Dašarath · 09-02-2021, 07:48 PM

mushrooms are cool though still. mycelium and the mushroom internet exist, plus its really powerful. but mushrooms cant exist without plants and plants cant exist without mushrooms. the two together look so fucking cool. im changing my vote to both

Dave Miles · 09-02-2021, 08:55 PM

when I lived in Vancouver years ago it was always really cool walking through the rainforest in late fall and seeing hundreds of different kinds of mushrooms everywhere.

The ones all over the lawn are Amanita muscaria, which I think the azteks used to take before blood sacrifices? Supposedly make you violently ill and delirious

Kane · 09-02-2021, 09:19 PM

What are those pink fungi?? They are super weird.

All of those images look like stuff that would grow on an alien world. I love it.

Dave Miles · 09-02-2021, 09:26 PM

Some kind of slime mold I was told, so I guess technically that’s a plant

Nixon · 09-03-2021, 04:29 AM

some kind of slime mold he was told but little did he know that he was sold a fake lump of gold by an old man from japan called kin-jan who was a very big fan of the wu tang clan, peace!

PizzaLuigi · 09-03-2021, 04:42 AM

Flowers are nice but I think fungus is far cooler than flowers they’re just much much more strange

Dašarath · 09-03-2021, 04:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave Miles

when I lived in Vancouver years ago it was always really cool walking through the rainforest in late fall and seeing hundreds of different kinds of mushrooms everywhere.

The ones all over the lawn are Amanita muscaria, which I think the azteks used to take before blood sacrifices? Supposedly make you violently ill and delirious

oh so fucking cool

Jokyfoot · 09-05-2021, 06:00 AM

it's easy, only one of these can absorb energy from the sun

View Poll Results: Fungi or Plants? Which are cooler?
Fungus	8	61.54%
Plant	5	38.46%
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09-01-2021, 05:41 AM	#1
Dašarath Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 428	Fungi or plants? Which are cooler Poll. The most important debate since like yesterdays debate
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09-01-2021, 05:53 AM	#2
Doog Lord Member Join Date: Oct 2020 Posts: 629	Most plants like flowers are boring as hell but then you've got Venus flytraps and those pitcher plants, one can kill insects and one can kill entire mice. Way cooler than some dumbass mushroom.
Doog Lord Member Join Date: Oct 2020 Posts: 629

09-01-2021, 05:56 AM	#3
Doog Lord Member Join Date: Oct 2020 Posts: 629	Haha sorry that message was so edgy I just couldn't think of any other 'cool' plant.
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09-01-2021, 08:14 AM	#5
Kane Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2020 Posts: 1,096	https://www.earthrangers.com/top-ten...ooking-plants/ Dk why there's a Sea Urchin in there, other than the nickname. The rest are pretty neat though! I've also never really cared about plants, but I saw some of these a while back (mother was growing plants for a wedding). They're called Red & White Wave Petunia's I think. They look like candy and are my favourite now:
Kane Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2020 Posts: 1,096

09-01-2021, 07:19 AM	#4
Dave Miles Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 10,236	Both are pretty cool. I’d have to go with fungi since they’re more mysterious

09-01-2021, 10:58 AM	#6
Dašarath Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 428	that dragons blood tree though. trees are so fucking cool. i do love fungi and the giant fungi that used to dominate the earth. cool mint candy plant also
Dašarath Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 428

09-01-2021, 02:50 PM	#7
Plopilpy Senior Member Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 3,105	Fungi can literally DRILL THROUGH ROCKS JUST BY USING INCREDIBLY STRONG HYPHAE. Also, they're the reason for sand. Those incredibly strong hyphae? In order to get nutrients from under rocks, that drilling through pulverized those rocks and in turn created sand.
Plopilpy Senior Member Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 3,105

09-01-2021, 04:04 PM	#8
Dave Miles Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 10,236	Cool info plop. I remember watching a documentary talking about before fungi evolved, entire forests would basically just turn to petrified stone because nature hadn’t yet developed a process to recycle/decay wood until those fun guys showed up

09-01-2021, 08:50 PM	#9
Dungeon Snake Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 17,519	Fungi are kind of cliche hippy shit, like whoaaaa far out trippy duuuude. Plants are actually way cooler, think about how nice it is to walk in an ancient misty forest full of gigantic old growth trees and the ground covered in luscious ferns. Imagine how nice the air smells in a place like that

09-02-2021, 04:15 AM	#10
Dave Miles Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 10,236	Good point. A lot of what makes mushrooms cool is just the environment in which you find them, usually in the forest. mushrooms on their own basically just look like dicks. I think I voted prematurely

09-02-2021, 04:27 AM	#11
Mr Mong Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 4,293	They also have cool names like destroying angel
Mr Mong Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 4,293

09-02-2021, 05:15 AM	#12
VGCharacters Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2020 Posts: 151	If you want a weird fungus, look no further than the common stinkhorn. Its scientific name is phallus impudicus, and when you see pictures of it, it's not hard to see why it's earned that name.

09-02-2021, 08:04 AM	#13
French Fry Super Moderator Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 1,962	Country girls make do.

09-02-2021, 03:14 PM	#14
I Am Your God Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2018 Posts: 374	If Bown farts, does a far away Boris start to chant? I'm siding with plants. There are many reasons why, but I'll just post one particular example here: In relation to fungi, I personally feel rather vexed, but this moment from beloved Bob's Burgers helps a lot:
	Last edited by I Am Your God : 09-02-2021 at 09:32 PM. Reason: ...Wanted to juice (haha?) the initial post

09-02-2021, 07:48 PM	#16
Dašarath Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 428	mushrooms are cool though still. mycelium and the mushroom internet exist, plus its really powerful. but mushrooms cant exist without plants and plants cant exist without mushrooms. the two together look so fucking cool. im changing my vote to both
Dašarath Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 428

09-02-2021, 08:55 PM	#17
Dave Miles Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 10,236	when I lived in Vancouver years ago it was always really cool walking through the rainforest in late fall and seeing hundreds of different kinds of mushrooms everywhere. The ones all over the lawn are Amanita muscaria, which I think the azteks used to take before blood sacrifices? Supposedly make you violently ill and delirious

09-02-2021, 09:19 PM	#18
Kane Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2020 Posts: 1,096	What are those pink fungi?? They are super weird. All of those images look like stuff that would grow on an alien world. I love it.
Kane Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2020 Posts: 1,096

09-02-2021, 09:26 PM	#19
Dave Miles Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 10,236	Some kind of slime mold I was told, so I guess technically that’s a plant

09-03-2021, 04:29 AM	#20
Nixon Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 4,293	some kind of slime mold he was told but little did he know that he was sold a fake lump of gold by an old man from japan called kin-jan who was a very big fan of the wu tang clan, peace!
Nixon Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 4,293

09-03-2021, 04:42 AM	#21
PizzaLuigi Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2019 Posts: 1,144	Flowers are nice but I think fungus is far cooler than flowers they’re just much much more strange

09-05-2021, 06:00 AM	#23
Jokyfoot Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 87	it's easy, only one of these can absorb energy from the sun
Jokyfoot Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 87