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Hi Rick,
That red one looks like Hygrophorus; perhaps H. puniceus; gills of H.
are waxy & H. puniceus is bright red & can be late season.
Yt, DW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Whitman" <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] sulphur shelf fungi at White Rock
> 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.
>
>
>
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> Rick Whitman
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