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Fungi Friday: Not just a park bench

25 Friday Nov 2016

Posted by sconzani in fungi, nature, parks

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Dacryomyces stillatus, Orange Jelly fungus, park bench, Tremella mesenterica, Yellow Brain Fungus

This looks like an ordinary park bench, right?

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But, if you look closer …

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No, closer …

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Then you will see that, even here, on a presumably treated and processed and painted (or stained) piece of wood, fungi are active.

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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?

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