[NatureNS] sulphur shelf fungi at White Rock

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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:45:27 -0300
From: Rick Whitman <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com>
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I've had a photo of that exact clump posted for several days now:

http://rickwhitman.smugmug.com/Nature/Gaspereau-River-Natural/17318613_2KGgNK#!i=2097230707&k=JWQHmzw

There's a small, shocking red mushroom in the next photo, taken way up
the river trail on the 19th.

Rick W.

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:46 PM, James W. Wolford
<jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> SEPT. 24, 2012 - Yesterday Pat & I noticed a big yellowish clump of bracket
> fungi on a tree-trunk just toward White Rock from the White Rock Bridge
> (Gaspereau River bridge).  I guessed these were sulphur shelf fungi, and,
> surely enough, when I drove back today, I confirmed the identity as
> Laetiporus sulphureus, alias chicken mushroom or chicken-of-the-woods
> fungus.  I believe the field guides say that the outer youngest parts of the
> brackets are edible? (my own rule is eat only the commercially sold kinds,
> and of course local and fresh).
>
> For any of you who go for a look and/or a photo (I took two, since there was
> a more colourful clump on the "hidden" side of the tree-trunk (away from the
> road).
>
> And, at about 12:30 p.m., the marbled godwit was in its usual place in
> Wolfville Harbour, just west of the biggest mud hill, in the drainage stream
> flowing out of the harbour toward the north.
>
> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.



-- 
Rick Whitman

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