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White coral fungus

Clavulina cristata

Notes:

I believe this is a mushroom.

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6 Comments

Pochempie
Pochempie 11 years ago

no it is not the same.

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

That could be a possibility. The common name of your spotting here is white coral fungus.

RiekoS
RiekoS 11 years ago

brendan.furneaux posted about them for me yesterday. They are poisonous and somewhat psychoactive. In fact, I spotted deers in the same area yesterday morning (I posted the picture). Maybe they ate them and became psychoactive???

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

That's interesting. Though they are technically poisonous, a healthy adult male would not die from consuming small amounts of them ( I am not speaking from experience, I had just read a lot about them). If you're interested in learning more there is a fantastic book called Toads and Toadstools by Adrian Morgan I would highly recommend.
http://www.amazon.com/Toads-Toadstools-M...

RiekoS
RiekoS 11 years ago

By the way, I found this where I found Fly Agaric mushrooms yesterday morning (I learned that they are poisonous). But, they were all gone by this morning. I hope some aminal(s) ate them.

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

You're on the right path, it is a fungi. Looks a type of coral fungi. It resembles white coral fungus but I'm not sure. The wiki pic doesn't look like it but others in google images do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavulina_c...

RiekoS
Spotted by
RiekoS

New York, USA

Spotted on Sep 30, 2012
Submitted on Sep 30, 2012

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