快递搁置太久长出蘑菇
A parcel from this year’s Single’s Day shopping festival grew mushrooms after the buyer left it at the courier station(驿站) for too long in Lijiang, Yunnan Province.
As photos taken on November 24 show, mushrooms can be seen growing out of the box. The courier station workers said that the objects inside the parcel included a fungus(真菌) pack — a culture medium(培养基) with fungus spores(孢子) which can help the growth of mushrooms after a certain time.
When the courier station received the parcel, they gave the customer a call asking him to come and pick up his parcel, at which point mushrooms hadn’t yet appeared. The customer didn’t immediately pick up his parcel, though, and after several days the worker noticed mushrooms appeared.
The parcel has now been taken away by its owner, who praised the growth of the mushrooms and said they were even bigger than the others he had bought in the past.
A web commentator joked that the customer could give the online store a good rating(评价) even without opening the parcel.