Thursday, September 10, 2009

Monday, September 7th, Space creatures...

As I was looking out the patio door this morning, something orange caught my eye in the flower bed. Sometimes debris blows into the yard, so as I went out to pick it up, I found it wasn't garbage at all, but a beautiful fungus:
I actually posted this for Catie, but Chuck beat me to it. Go to www.flickr.com/katanachuck to see his much more artful photo.

3 comments:

Mindy said...

Chris, I asked Mike on this one. He said it's called Chicken of the Woods and it is edible. It has the taste and texture of chicken (loosly translated). Mike said he ate one this year and he would say it tasted like chicken but it was good. They like to grow on old or dying oak trees.

Mindy said...

Correction to the above, Mike said he would'nt say it tasted like chicken.

Mike Howell said...

However, I do not recommend eating any wild mushroom unless you personally know for sure what you are doing.