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Dacryomyces stillatus, Orange Jelly fungus, park bench, Tremella mesenterica, Yellow Brain Fungus
This looks like an ordinary park bench, right?

But, if you look closer …

No, closer …

Then you will see that, even here, on a presumably treated and processed and painted (or stained) piece of wood, fungi are active.
The bright orange blobs are the aptly named Orange Jelly fungus (Dacryomyces stillatus) and the washed-out yellow blobs are probably Yellow Brain Fungus (Tremella mesenterica) – I say probably because there’s another fungus that looks a lot like this one, Tremella aurantia, but it’s parasitic on a third fungus, Hairy Curtain crust (Stereum Hirsutum), which does not appear to be present here – but who knows what’s lurking inside the wood?
How interesting! And what good eyesight you have!
I keep meaning to ask you – the monkey in your header photo – what is it looking at? Is it a leaf or a caterpillar or what?
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Actually, I have very poor eyesight and often have to take off my specs and get really close to things to see the details – makes for some interesting and often embarrassing situations! 🙂
The monkey (a baboon) is looking at a leaf. My tongue-in-cheek title for this photo is ‘Baboon contemplating the meaning of leaf’! 😉
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Those names are great! Yellow Brain Fungus 😂
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Agreed! There are some great fungi names! 😉
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