Canada Goose wrote: ↑Tue Oct 07, 2025 7:48 pm
I wasn't sure about this one.
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Thanks for sharing!
Note how mine has really fine final branches (teeth) that all point downwards. Note how yours has final branches that are nowhere near so fine, and they mostly point upwards. That may all seem nitpicky, but it is an important set of differences.
Mine is (or was, before I cooked and ate it) one of the tooth fungi. That is a small group, all the Western North American species of which are either edible or so foul-tasting that there is no way you could gag them down, so amongst the safest to collect and eat. (And there’s nothing that looks like my specific one which is not edible.)
Yours, by contrast, is one of the coral fungi, a large group, many of which are poisonous (not deadly, but not immediately obviously, either, and who wants to get sick). Some are edible, even choice, but telling them apart can be tricky (as in, chemical tests and microscopic examination of spores required, you can’t just go by visible macroscopic characteristics). I can tell yours in the genus
Ramaria and that is about it.
It's called clown range for a reason.
plus afew others any thoughts forum hockey fans.? It's currently 20c @ the lake in Harrison.
