A woman in Melbourne, Australia, removed the flooring from a friend’s house and discovered a creepy-looking ‘network’ of strange, slimy black threads.
Hannah Sycamore opened the wooden floorboards in her friend’s house after they became very wet (apparently due to a flood, but unspecified). What she saw scared her because it looked like something out of science fiction or horror movies.
She took a few pictures and Posted on social media, asking if anyone knew what it was. Her post quickly went viral, but commenters were left surprised.
Most often the opinion was expressed that these were the roots of a plant, overgrown fungus or mycelium. However, no one has yet been able to identify an exact match to a particular biological species.
“It’s new to me too. It’s definitely not like traditional fungus,” said an expert from the State Herbarium in Brisbane, contacted by local reporters.
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“All I can say is that it vaguely resembles the rhizomorphs of Armillaria, but that doesn’t give much insight,” he added.
Mushrooms of the genus Armillaria (including common honey mushrooms) form the largest mycelial networks in the world. However, their rhizomorphs still look different from what grew under Hannah Sycamore’s floorboards.
Another plant scientist, Elizabeth Aitken, from the University of Queensland, agreed it looked like hyphae rhizomorphs and said samples should be taken for research.
Mycologist (mushroom expert) Heike Neumeister-Kemp also thinks that it resembles mycelium and is convinced that it is not dangerous to humans at all.