It turns out that fungus growing termites sometimes cultivate Termitomyces titanicus. This is an excellent scientific name.

CORRECTION:
I assumed they had to work like ants. Wrong! (A fruiting body would only emerge from a dead ant colony not so with these termites) Something about macrotermitinaes nuptial flights stimulates mushroom fruiting. (!) They get covered in pink spores.

And you can eat it!

Hence the species name.

@futurebird The mushroom is cool, but also kinda sad.

@kevinrns @michaelgemar

termite empire is fallen :(

@futurebird @kevinrns @michaelgemar giant mushrooms over human cities also herald the fall of our empires :-/
@trurl @futurebird @kevinrns Dark, but accurate.