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[Closed] Can anyone name this fungus please.

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Nearly sat down down on this at Drumlanrig yesterday, very impressive colouring. 🙂

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Posted : 02/10/2011 5:40 pm
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looks like a yellow antler fungus 😕


 
Posted : 02/10/2011 5:44 pm
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Thats quick! Thanks very much tazzymtb 😉


 
Posted : 02/10/2011 5:46 pm
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It's [url= http://www.foodista.com/food/VX2WZ5LR/coral-fungi ]This little thingy[/url]


 
Posted : 02/10/2011 5:50 pm
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Thanks very much for that^^^^,pity we didn't know then it was edible 😳


 
Posted : 02/10/2011 5:59 pm
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Is it the one that tastes like chicken?
Very pretty.


 
Posted : 02/10/2011 6:16 pm
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Bunnyhop, couldn't tell you what the taste was like, no-one would volunteer to have a taste. 😛 . I was only just pulled out of the way in time or it would have been the flattened version 😳


 
Posted : 02/10/2011 6:27 pm
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I'd call it Eric...

Well you said you wanted a name for it... 😉


 
Posted : 02/10/2011 7:27 pm
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Tazzy has it i think.
Most likely to be a yellow antler(staghorn) fungus.
Not too edible as can give you the squits.

The chicken flavoured one is the aptly named 'chicken of the woods'
They will be found on the trunks of a damaged oak trees, they grow as brackets. I don't think they taste too chicken like, but are a good fleshy addition that i like in an omelette.


 
Posted : 02/10/2011 7:45 pm
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Thanks very much sharki, it's a good job nobody was feeling brave enough to eat Eric 😆 then as they could have been looking for a toilet not long after 😳


 
Posted : 02/10/2011 7:50 pm