Oh i totally forgot to post this! I was flipping through The Goblin Market at the library and this just exploded my brain! I know guerrilla gardening is a thing but guerrilla grafting? What! So cool and i totally never thought of it.
Where instead of sowing seeds in the traditional guerrilla gardening/seed bombing style, you instead graft edible branches to existing (and related species so the graft takes) root networks! That way the plant now bears food in a much shorter period of time than starting from seed. (Or buying saplings which can get expensive where i live)
always a favourite of mine to see as they grow in clusters that bunch tightly together at the base of trees or old stumps. related to the psychoactive mushrooms in the Psilocybe genus, but containing no psilocybin itself, this mushroom is inedible (but does turn green when cooked!) and some specimens have been found to contain neurotoxins. not good eating but always a joy to find!
the rains might be shy but the mushrooms aren’t this year :))
Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus), also called Lawyers Wig. it slowly dissolves into ink, a process known as deliquescing. it’s edible when young but can cause symptoms of alcohol poisoning or a severe hangover when consumed with alcohol as it interferes with the way alcohol is metabolised!!
Big chonker out of leafs to eat, needs something more from life
[img id] Digital art of a big, fat monarch butterfly caterpillar. The style is cel-shaded with delicate, precise lineart. It's covered in a cacophony of black, peach, and white stripes. It has big black feelers on its head and fake feelers on its butt. The remains of leaves that it has demolished in its everpresent hunger are scattered around where it steps. [/id]