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a mushroom that digests itself into black ink before you can eat it twice
means An edible mushroom (Coprinus comatus) with a tall, scaly, shaggy-looking cap that quickly dissolves into a black inky liquid as it matures.
from The name is plain English description: a 'mane' of shaggy, upturned scales clothing the cap, like a ragged head of hair. Its scientific genus, Coprinus, comes from the Greek 'kopros' (dung), nodding to the fungus's fondness for rich, manured ground — and 'comatus' is Latin for 'hairy' or 'long-haired,' the same root behind 'comet,' which the ancients saw as a star wearing flowing hair. The self-digesting trick that the essence celebrates earned the wider group the nickname 'inky caps.'
- self-destruct
- Dissolves into inky goo within hours of picking
- actual ink
- Victorians wrote with its liquefied spores
- pavement punk
- Pushes up through asphalt and gravel
- booze ban
- Cousin species poisons you only with alcohol
- eat fast
- Edible window measured in hours, not days
coprinus comatus — mushroom species found worldwide with distinctive shaggy white cap that dissolves into black ink
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