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"Mary Fisher" wrote:

"Mike Dee" wrote in message
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Just out from my door to my backyard I have a large garden bed which I
had mulched heavily with "green" wood and bark chips. After a couple of
months of drought, we had a week of rain in autumn producing an
abundance of fungi in the areas I had mulched. I don't know anything
more about this fungus. Sorry if the pic is too large.


It looks a bit like honey fungus to me.

Some people get hysterical at the mention of it but it's not necessary, it
comes sometimes in my garden but not often. It's particularly keen on
cut-down trees or shrubs.

Thanks, Mary. If it isn't honey fungus, that's a nice enough name for me
want to use your suggestion anyway. It certainly appeared where I had
deposited shredded tree limbs and shrub clippings.

It can be eaten, some like it. I haven't tried it.

I'm not *that* adventurous either :-)

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Mike
Upper Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia