On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:35:39 +0000, echinosum
wrote:


mogga;893701 Wrote:
'How does your garden grow?s Fotos - Pinnwand-Fotos | Facebook'
(http://tinyurl.com/329v3f3)

Hope you can see it. It's a mushroom type thing growing on a tree
stump in the garden.

'How does your garden grow?s Fotos - Pinnwand-Fotos | Facebook'
(http://tinyurl.com/329v3f3)
that's underneath
It's called Dryad's Saddle or Polyporus squamosus, a very common fungus
of dead tree stumps. I was rather surprised to learn it is on a living
tree, and also surprised that someone thinks it edible. But wikipedia

It's not on a living one... the green is from the privet hedge
behind.The stump is too soft to chainsaw out so it's been left.

is my friend. So I learn (1) it can grow on living maples and (2)
although normally listed as an edible fungus in the textbooks (not
poisonous, but not usually nice to eat), but apparently some people do
eat them, but you have to get them when they are very young and tender.
Since they persist for a long time, they are normally encountered when
they are tough and manky.
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