--- In chicagolichens@yahoogroups.com, "Sam Houston" <sphwolf@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In chicagolichens@yahoogroups.com, "chicagolichens"
> <chicagolichens@> wrote:
> >
> > Sam, it looks like you have photos of an orange colored mushroom
(?)
> > that isn't a lichen as far as I know. Maybe others can comment.
> >
>
> Well, I wondered if that was maybe what it was but I wasn't sure.
> Hopefully others will comment.
> In the meantime I have a mushroom expert that I correspond with from
> time to time so I'll ask his opinion and see if he also thinks it's
a
> mushroom.
>
Sam, It looks like it may have once been some kind of chantrelle or
false chantrelle. It has that upward trumpet shape and bright orange.
But it is hard to tell with out seeing the underside.
Jess