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Very cool looking mushroom. You cold also try posting this to http://mushroomobserver.org/ they are great at identifying stuff.
Beautiful little mushrooms.
Thanks for the friendly comments guys! And thanks to CorduneanuVlad for the ID. I would never have guessed this was a non-native oyster mushroom just growing roadside.
It looks most likely to me to be the stem of a mushroom that has lost it's cap. It could be something else though, maybe a malformed mushroom or possibly some kind of stinkhorn.
Thank you Lauren, that really means a lot to me :)
This looks like it is probably some dryad's saddle (Polyporus squamosus). A little unusual of a specimen with such a pronounced stem.
Here is a link to a similar specimen: http://mushroomobserver.org/142113?q=212...
Definitely an earthstar mushroom of some kind. Usually they are symbiotes that grow around the roots of plants.