Fungi
I spotted this while out with Honey yesterday. I thought this one was called Chicken of the Woods, an edible mushroom known as "shelf" fungi, but when I looked it up, it doesn't resemble that mushroom at all.
I tried Plant Snap, who said its a Shaggy Bracket. Might look kind of cool, but is actually a parasitic fungus that grows on dead or dying hardwood trees. The thing is the tree looked perfectly healthy to me so I'm not sure I have the right one. Any takers?
And I love these red spotted ones which I think are called fly agaric and are definitely not edible.
Sorry, I know nothing about fungi! Don't gnomes and fairies live under those red and white spotty ones?
ReplyDeleteLegend has it, yes, but I can't say I saw any on my travels. Or maybe the little beggars are invisible. I haven't checked, I respect their privacy.
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