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Name: Larry Enterprise, Al. 36330 (Zone 8b)          Seedfork Aug 16, 2021 3:30 PM CST |
| A club member found this at the botanical gardens today. It had the base of the daylily completely surrounded. Looks like some type of fungus to me, but it was hard with the consistency and texture of a piece of slightly rotted wood.    |
Name: James North Louisiana (Zone 8b)             deepsouth Aug 16, 2021 3:38 PM CST |
 either a conk fungus - or - ground fungus .....no idea which one |
Name: Sue Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)           sooby Aug 16, 2021 5:13 PM CST |
| Slime mold perhaps, one type here: https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-na... |
SE Iowa  hawkeye_daddy Aug 16, 2021 5:26 PM CST |
| Are there tubular structures inside of it? Wish I could zoom in on the picture. It kind of looks like dryad's saddle, but I've only seen that on trees before. Older specimens have that spongey rotted wood texture you described. |
Name: Orion Boston, MA (Zone 6b)     plasko20 Aug 16, 2021 5:46 PM CST |
| Truffle? Gardening: So exciting I wet my plants! |
Name: Larry Enterprise, Al. 36330 (Zone 8b) Seedfork Aug 16, 2021 6:38 PM CST |
| Well, I can't imagine this ever being edible. Also it formed in just a matter of a few days, it was not there just a week or so ago according to the club member who found it. It was very hard, wood like. I have had slime mold here in my yard, but it was never hard like this. Don't know about any tubular structures inside of it. The only thing I could find that sounded like this was Shelf fungus, but that also appeared to normally grow on trees. |
Name: Orion Boston, MA (Zone 6b) plasko20 Aug 16, 2021 6:47 PM CST |
| If it is from the botanical gardens it might be from anywhere on the planet and may not be endemic to your region. Gardening: So exciting I wet my plants! |
Name: Larry Enterprise, Al. 36330 (Zone 8b) Seedfork Aug 16, 2021 8:50 PM CST |
| Possible I suppose, but being the daylily club does all the maintenance of those beds I feel it is probably from here in Alabama. |
Name: Roger & Karen Birmingham, Al (Zone 7a)    Diggerofdirt Aug 17, 2021 8:05 PM CST |
| Mushroom i am guessing . They come up quick here. Just out of no where . Is it real moist in that area? A little too shady? Some of them around here are kinda of rotten wood texture. Every home needs a daylily, and every daylily needs a home. |
Name: Sue Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b) sooby Aug 18, 2021 5:06 AM CST |
| @seedfork you could try posting in the NGA Fungi Forum: https://garden.org/forums/view... |
Name: Larry Enterprise, Al. 36330 (Zone 8b) Seedfork Aug 18, 2021 6:09 AM CST |
| @sooby Thanks, I remember reading that some people wanted fungi included in the database, but were turned down because fungi are not plants, so I guess my brain was thinking there would not be a forum for fungi. |
Name: Sue Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b) sooby Aug 18, 2021 6:47 AM CST |
Seedfork said: Interestingly, the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature was changed in 2011 to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. Perhaps that's what prompted the idea? |
Name: Larry Enterprise, Al. 36330 (Zone 8b) Seedfork Aug 18, 2021 10:16 AM CST |
| I think it had more to do with how Dave has the database setup, and it was not designed for fungi, and molds. |
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