Not all fungi are mushroom-shaped. Many are brackets. But some also are… this
Yellow Stagshorn
I tend not to frequent pine forests. Which might explain why, in all these years, this is my first encounter with the Yellow Stagshorn, for it likes to feed on dead pines. Oh my, was I excited when I took this pic.
crispina kemp 
WOW! That’s amazing! No wonder you were excited! The colours are fantastic. It almost looks like coral.
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There is a *coral* fungu. And I confess, that’s what I thought this was at first. But the coral fungi grows in grass, not on the mossy trunk of a decaying pine-tree. No, definitely the Stagshorn.
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I meant sea coral. The only Staghorn I know is an air plant. Gorgeous! Great find Crispina!
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Yea, I know. And there is a fungus named for the sea-coral, Called coral fungus.
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Note, Jen, the stagshorn here is a fungus, not a fern. 🙂
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Obviously 🙂
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Didn’t know if you realised that, with you saying about aerial rooting
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I thought so too! 🙂
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🙂 Great minds…
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Puts me in mind of some strain of sea anemone. Very colorful!
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As I’ve just explained to Jen, there is another fungi very similar which grows in grassland, that’s called the Coral.
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Why do you avoid pine forests? Look at what you have been missing sharing with us! I see everyone else feels the sea has left behind a piece of her in the shape of coral – and we expect a picture one day of the Coral fungi that grows in grassland 😉
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Hey! You didn’t answer my question! 😉
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Yes I did. I said I didn’t avoid them, we just don’t have them in my neck of the woods.
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It didn’t register…
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I must have lost connection though usually it says it’s unable to send.
So basically, because the pine isn’t native to East Anglia, the only pine woods are privately owned. And seldom are the public allowed in them. Howver, where a woodland was once part of a large estate, there might well be pines amongst them, and of sufficient age to be worth a visit.
There was woodland opposite where I lived before I moved to Yarmouth. It had been part of the Jerningham estate, but on being sold, certain of the woodlands were bought by the parish for use of parishioners. Thinking to turn a profit, at some point (probably late 1960s) the parish planted pines upon a hilltop. I remember them as diddy things, too low to walk beneath. My daughters remember them as a dark place to play. Last year the loggers moved in. Time to turn the timber to cash. The pines removed, the bluebells bloomed in more numbers than I can remember of that woodland.
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Well… If you look on your post you’ll see it wasn’t there…😉
Ahh. now that explains it!
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Yes I did, and I did, and so I’ve answered again. 🙂
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Haha! All good
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🙂
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That’s a really pretty fungi! 😀 ❤
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It was my first sighting. I was excited. I’m not sure you get an idea of the size; it might help if I tell you that’s moss around it, small moss.
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The bright yellow against the dark green moss is really beautiful! Well done Crispina!
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Thank you. I wasn’t sure it was going to come out. Not the best of lighting conditions. Rain makes everything sparkle, which isn’t always what we want
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I’d be excited too – I know what it is but I’ve never come across it before!
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Yea, it’s not that common. Fungi have been much like that, this autumn.
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I can see why you were excited; I would have been. At first glance I though it was a staghorn type coral. And that is what is magical about the image and especially that yellow color. Hope you find more of those to shoot. So very cool!
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Yea, me too. But with pines not being native to Norfolk, chances are restricted.
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I’ve taken images of fungi when out from time to time and I ought to take inspiration from you and pay more attention when out. You have shown such an interesting array of them. The one with blood dripping the other was interesting in a macabre way. Better to think of it as raspberry topping maybe?
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I like that. Raspberry meringue.
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