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Old 01-22-2008, 02:36 PM
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It is orange, flattish, and abounds on the soft wooden posts of my (decaying and rotten) gate...

I don't know if it is a fungus or if it is some sort of lichen. The former, I suspect, though which I don't have a scoobies!





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I saw this here in the Netherlands too. It looks a bit gelly, but it is a fungus I think. It looks very colourful on wood.
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Its a jelly fungus... Dacrymyces stillatus I think,
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lichen only grow in clean areas, i doubt they would grow on rotting wood. some, or most, fungus feed off decaying organic matter so i'd say fungus.
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Old 01-29-2008, 02:17 PM
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Cheers folks

It appears the views were right - it is a member of the Dacrymyces family of fungi.


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