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Large fleshy pale blue & red colored mushroom. See second photo for size comparison with my hiking boot.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN
Spotted on Jun 17, 2012
Submitted on Jun 20, 2012
5 Comments
Thank you Nancy!
This is a lovely fungus. I believe it may be a ganoderma as well. They do acquire odd coloring as they age.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/707...
Keith, the red is just park of the natural coloration of the fungus though I admit it does look a lot like blood.
Thanks Jacob, I will do some more research!
It appears as if it fell off a tree. I would check Ganoderma sp. first.
Is that animal blood on the mushroom?