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Thanks Luis - We appreciate all your help in building this mission! Your photos have added so much to our understanding and appreciation

Hi Luis- We need your help! Hoping you can take a look at all of your postings for our Species Spotlight mission and update the ID and scientific names as suggested by the Project Noah rangers. In some cases they may only be able to give you the genus, but you can just use "sp." for the species name. We are gearing up for a return to the Amazon in July 2013 will be using these postings as a teaching tool prior to departure. We want to get all of our current spottings up to speed before our next launch! Thanks very much!

Alex is right, it's not a mushroom. It's a parasitic plant belonging to the Balanophoraceae family and possibly in the genus Balanophora. Nice spot Luis.

you're welcome luis but what does it mean if you don't re-edit the id and let it be a mushroom {which it isn't} ??? No offending, but it is time to give them the proper id

Wow, Luis, fantastic!!

hi luis stevens. I'm fairly sure, you can get an id, by craigwilliams ( http://www.projectnoah.org/users/craigwilliams ). It's probably a plant, mimicin a mushroom.