Boni Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 I found this creation in my yard/garden this morning. I've seen a lot of lichens, molds, slime mold, mushrooms, toadstools, etc. but this is the first time I've seen one that looks like candy corn. Anybody recognize it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Um.. Let me think. Nope! No idea what that thing is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne from Guam Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 It looks like a dog ate candy corn and up chucked in your yard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boni Posted September 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 :PI thought that too...but it's intact, growing attached to the ground! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Orange Yellow Jelly Mushroom. Couldn't be more descriptive! I Googled it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oma Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 My neighbor had something similar in her yard except it looked almost like orange peels. It was of mushroom consistancy and growing out of the ground. Have you tried "Googling" it? Be sure to post what you find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zora Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Those jelly mushrooms are sort of translucent and wet looking. I've seen lots of those, and the picture doesn't really look that way. Take the picture to your local Extension agency, or try to find a mushroom hunter's club and ask them. I googled Oregon Mushrooms and found something similar looking, but it was more brown with the white tips. It didn't give a name, however. Gosh, doesn't nature produce the most interesting things?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IQ'd Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 I googled fungus that looks like candy corn, found some pictures and one said it was called chicken of the woods. Go figure! anyway it was interesting to google it. I guess it is worth $24.00 a pound here: http://www.localharvest.org/chicken-of-the-woods-or-sulfur-shelf-mushroom-C11529 Says it tastes like chicken and can be used instead of chicken in many recipes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 interesting. here are some facts from wikipedia on the chicken of the woods fungus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetiporus don't think i would be eating it though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boni Posted September 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 We have to keep looking. It isn't really gelatinous like jelly or translucent. And it isn't a "shelf" mushroom. I would guess it's more of a fungus because it's growing from the ground. Last night I went out to look at it in the dark and there was a slug eating on it. The picture I took this morning is distorted because my camera didn't like the sun shining from the side. more later... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zora Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 I have seen hen of the woods mushrooms, which are about the same as chicken of the woods, only a different color. They are quite different than this in appearance. They have more of a petal effect, like ruffled chicken feathers. Mushrooms are fungi, but mabe searching fungus would help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zora Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 http://www.wvdnr.gov/wildlife/magazine/Archive/06summer/sulphurshelf.pdf Check out these pictures. It could be the first one, Sulphur Shelf...a close relative to chicken of the woods. Although yours doesn't have "shelves"...it does resemble the first picture a good bit. Another picture I found of a similar mushroom (different color) was also called a shelf mushroom although it looked like a cluster of "big toes" jutting out in all directions, no shelves so to speak. I love these mysteries! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Linda S Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 It does look like a chicken of the woods, but you usually see them growing on trees, so I'd have an expert look at it before you eat it. If it is a chicken of the woods, it is really yummy! I've eaten them before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IQ'd Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 It grows from old wood. I bet if you looked under yours then you would find an old branch of wood. All mushrooms are a type of fungus that is why I google searched for 'fungus that looks like candy corn'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMMaynes Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 WOW, all I can say is you don't find stuff like that out here in the AZ desert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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