Pfft -- do those pants LOOK square to you? A new mushroom that
"lives in the rain forest, under a tree" *puts gun in mouth* was
recently discovered in Borneo and scientists have decided to
name it after Spongebob Squarepants because of its similarity to
the perpetually high sea-sponge. I dunno, I would have named it
LOOOOOOOOFAH. Shaped like a sea sponge, the bright orange (and
sometimes purple) mushroom, Spongiforma squarepantsii, was
discovered in the forests of Sarawak, Malaysia, on the island of
Borneo in 2010, and just described in May in the journal
Mycologia. "It's just like a sponge with these big hollow
holes," Desjardin said. "When it's wet and moist and fresh, you
can wring water out of it and it will spring back to its
original size. Most mushrooms don't do that." Oh yeah? Well most
rocks don't do that either, SO THERE. No word if the new shroom
is psychedelic, but I am ready and willing to lather one in
peanut butter to find out. "Shhhh -- don't tell him it's
poisonous." I HEARD THAT -- ya'll are