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Hypomyces lactifluorum
Like a large mis-shapen lump....reddish in colour. Massive but particularized by
Woodland. Under trees.
Lobster mushroom is not a mushroom. It is a parasitic ascomycete fungus. This fungus grows on other species of mushrooms, turning them a reddish orange colour somewhat like the outer shell of a cooked lobster.
Thank you, KarenSaxton...going ahead with the ID. Just one thing...I suppose there is no way of knowing what the host mushroom was...it is so large!
I'm an avid mushroom hunter at home and my yard is just full of lobs right now. They love the warmer weather at the end of summer
Thank you KarenSaxton. I am a visitor to Scotland (actually UK) so have no idea...let me explore a bit. Thank you so much.
Not sure if you have Lobsters there, although you seem to have everything else we do, in terms of edibles and our climates are the same. I'd guess Lobster - it's a fungus on a fungus :)
Spotted on Aug 31, 2017
Submitted on Sep 4, 2017
