45lb Mushroom found in Mexico

Sunday, July 15 2007 @ 02:13 pm UTC

Contributed by: Billy

I like mushroom sauce with a nice piece of steak, but you'd need a lot of steak to use this mushroom. This 45lb (20kg), 28in (70cm) tall mushroom was found in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas.

From: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22054784-13762,00.html

A MORE than 20kg mushroom has been picked in a forest in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas, university officials said today.

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The white mushroom, macrocybe titans, measured a towering 70cm tall, was found near Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, according to the Southern Border University Centre.


Macrocybe Titans Mushroom (Source: AP)

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