mushroom/toadstool?
Oct 23, 2016 12:30:58 #
I was walking in the woods yesterday and came across this toadstool/mushroom type fungus. Does anyone happen to know what it could be? It has a sticky surface. A leaf was lying over one and it did not want to come off. My niece says it is a fairy house with stained glass windows. I'm not quite sure I believe her but hey, who knows!
Oct 23, 2016 12:48:12 #
My quick search didn't turn up any matches. Could the sticky substance be tree sap?
Oct 23, 2016 13:27:18 #
I thought it could be sap also but the sticky substance seems to be coming out of the fungus itself. I'm going back out today. I'll do a little more investigating, if I can find them again.
Oct 23, 2016 22:02:24 #
OK. We went back today. My son cut it away from the tree. It appears to be a fungus with a firm foam rubber like texture. Behind the fungus, coming out of the tree was a black, liquid goo, that was full of worms. It looks like the tree is dieing and nature is taking its course.
Oct 24, 2016 07:46:13 #
They are just stones come to life!! Perhaps this one is the type to dip blowgun darts in that sap.
Beautiful and interesting as presented, but to emphasize the beauty of the lower left leaves and the dark rough stone on the right, perhaps cropping just above the ^ straw and an equal distance to the right. (clone out any white top right stone)
Beautiful and interesting as presented, but to emphasize the beauty of the lower left leaves and the dark rough stone on the right, perhaps cropping just above the ^ straw and an equal distance to the right. (clone out any white top right stone)
Oct 25, 2016 01:40:36 #
I don't know what it is, but it's pretty and you took a very good shot of it, twinhearts!
Oct 25, 2016 17:19:23 #
twinhearts wrote:
I was walking in the woods yesterday and came across this toadstool/mushroom type fungus. Does anyone happen to know what it could be? It has a sticky surface. A leaf was lying over one and it did not want to come off. My niece says it is a fairy house with stained glass windows. I'm not quite sure I believe her but hey, who knows!
Hello twinhearts
I think it might be what is called a Polypore (Bracket Fungus). It looks like it could be an early stage Blushing Bracket showing red bruising and weeping brightly coloured liquid, particularly if it was wet. The colours produced can be quite beautiful. As they grow they firm up into flat rubbery structures although this one looks like the surface of this one is being attacked by another fungus. If it was infested with worms or larvae then it may not have suvived anyway. I think that the stained glass of a fairy house is a much more attractive idea.
david
Oct 27, 2016 14:17:28 #
twinhearts wrote:
I was walking in the woods yesterday and came across this toadstool/mushroom type fungus. Does anyone happen to know what it could be? It has a sticky surface. A leaf was lying over one and it did not want to come off. My niece says it is a fairy house with stained glass windows. I'm not quite sure I believe her but hey, who knows!
Hello twinhearts
Something was bothering me about your mushroom/toadstool. The shape of the underside of the one in the upper left hand corner of the shot together with those weird surface shapes and oozing liquid. I got that wrong. It is not a Polypore/Bracket. It is a Bleeding Tooth Fungus aka Devil's Tooth (Hydnellum peckii). Check this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnellum_peckii or Google Bleeding Tooth Fungus and loads of stuff comes up.
What a great find!!!!
david
Oct 27, 2016 16:03:40 #
Thanks everyone! I'm glad I took my niece with me. She has a good eye. She took the photo. Not the greatest but she is only 7. Now she want to go hiking with her own camera. I have an old Kodak easy share, she can use. It just needs to stop raining as she is very impatient.
I did Google the bleeding tooth fungus. Yep, that is what it is. I can't wait to look for more.
I did Google the bleeding tooth fungus. Yep, that is what it is. I can't wait to look for more.
Oct 27, 2016 17:42:45 #
twinhearts wrote:
Thanks everyone! I'm glad I took my niece with me. She has a good eye. She took the photo. Not the greatest but she is only 7. Now she want to go hiking with her own camera. I have an old Kodak easy share, she can use. It just needs to stop raining as she is very impatient.
I did Google the bleeding tooth fungus. Yep, that is what it is. I can't wait to look for more.
I did Google the bleeding tooth fungus. Yep, that is what it is. I can't wait to look for more.
Hello twinhearts
Two great results. A positive ID for the fungus and your niece hooked on photography for life!
david
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