Yes, folks, it’s fungus season, no denying. And what a bumper season it is. Fungi like it warm and damp.
And with this being the Sunday before Halloween, I thought this *Beefcake Bracket*, with its dripping blood, would fit the bill.
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Is that edible?
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Um, I’m not sure, though I wouldn’t recommend it. The brackets are what you might call perenniels, and as such provide cosy homes for all manner of burrowing insects. And when new fresh and growing and hard as wood. Our forebears used them for kindling, to start their fires. Might give you an idea of edibility.
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Kindling, really? I’ve learned something from you again this morning!
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There’s one particular fungus which is colloquially called *touch wood*, for its common use. But lots of fungi can be used like this. Obviously not the Inkcap!
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I assume you have to dry them first… Do you know, is there some reason they’re better as tinder than tree or bush twigs, or is it more a matter of not having those others handy?
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It’s a textural thing… or at least I assume so. Wood is dense, therefore not so easy to take flame, while the fungi are more porous.
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Hmm, good point!
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Well, you started it off with a bang! Or maybe what is left over after the bang?
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I thought it apt, so close to Halloween. So many photos these past few weeks, it’s hard to decide which to use. I want to post them all, all in one go. Gosh, that would be a mammoth post. 🙂
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These are more than apt for this Sunday before Hallowe’en! Fantabulous, Crispina!
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I like that word. Oh, they’r fantabulous. I do thank you, Dale.
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😁
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Ewww! Gross! was my first response when I saw it. Then it kinda looked like dripping jelly and I stop there because my imagination flew! I won’t say what else it started to look like. You’ve accomplished your Halloween nightmare A mushroom pièce de résistance. 😈👏👏👏
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As I said, I thought it apt. I found it inside a hollow oak trunk.
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Nice hunting 🙂
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It was quite early for fungi, too. Well, first week in September. But previous years they’ve been scarce till middle November. Although brackets are always there, they can more resemble a chunk of tree when they’re not in growing mode.
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So would you say they were ripe?
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Not sure I’d use the word *ripe*. This one is dripping a red colour because it is wet, no other reason. It’s not juice. Fungi don’t have juice. Which you might bear in mind when you see next week’s offering.
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Why is it red? OH! I’m asking too many questions LOL Thanks for the tip.
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Red is its colour, at least the top growing layer. As you might see, underneath is white.
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Oh. 🙂
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Bloody Brackets – Pretty disgusting looking fungi. Definitely Halloweeny.
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Yea… just to get the season going.
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That looks like one hearty cut. Wouldn’t want to mistaken this for edible 😉
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Doesn’t look too appetitising does it
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Is there any season that is not fungi season for you?
(This question is rhetorical.)
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Yea, but you know what I mean. Not so many flowers from autumn through early spring, and the berries all bird-eaten. So… I feature the fungi.
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Fair enough. Though perhaps some winter day, you will try your hand at capturing the people of Norfolk . . . with your camera.
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Now you know that’s unlikely, cos I don’t do people. Or very rarely. I have taken a couple of shots over the past year. But then comes the problem. I’d be most irate if someone took photos of me and posted them on a public site without my expressed permission. And I won’t do it to anyone else. And your typical Norfolkian aint too inclined to grant that permission without first you’ve anwered their 20 or more questions, usually amongst them is am I famous. No? Then sod off. Fungi are so much easier.
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I thought fungi were sod off. 😉
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You mean the Norfolk dialect word for… something similar to sod off… is fungi? Drat, you’ve caught on. 🙂
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What an unusual mushroom! At first glance it reminded me of a pastry with strawberry icing. But as soon as you mentioned bloody beefcake, I can’t see it any other way. Eww! Perfect for the spooky season. What makes that gel on top? (Or how? why?) I’ve never seen anything like that.
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I can’t say I’m that well informed on it, except to say that’s the growing part of it, and it dribbles red-coloured water, I assume when it gets wet. I didn’t go dabbling my fingers in it, but it does seem more watery than gooey.
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Gooey would be more creepy than watery, somehow, but it looks plenty gross to fit in with the season as it is. Great pick!
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Thanks. I took the photo a month of so ago. I’ve been sitting on it, so to speak, impatient to post it.
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Oh, and it especially like oaks, and oak bark produces a red dye. So perhaps the red comes from the oak? A thought.
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Definitely a bloody good fungi for Halloween!
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As soon as I saw it I knew I had to use it for Halloween
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