What is it?

[Rob]

Kind of thought that i would stick this in this section (figure it was in the woods that we found them)

Does anyone know what this is? (the picture on this link - i did it to keep it big).

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwill75552/myhomepage/photo.html

I found two of them with Nomad last week, during a well earned few days worth of woodland dossing/archerying in West Sussex. Cant find it in my books. They were kind of squishy - up until then they were looking at being big albino cramp balls

I think that the drops of liquid are a result of us poking it with a stick a couple of days before taking the picture.

 

[Adi007]

Jack!!! :-D

 

[the naughty boy]

bizarre. didnt you cut it open and investigate? also how did you get your pics on the web?
its not a tunnocks tea cake thats melted ?
i,ll get my coat.

 

[Kath]

Looks like invasion of the body snatchers to me...!!! :shock:

(Hold up naughty boy, I'll get my hat! )

 

[Rob]

It does have something of the alien films about it - i must admit.

Didn't want to cut it about, as I had not seen one before - I have been using those woods for quite a few years now - and didn't want to be responsible for some kind of first contact alien autopsy guilt

 

[Adi007]

It does have something of the alien films about it - i must admit.

Didn't want to cut it about, as I had not seen one before - I have been using those woods for quite a few years now - and didn't want to be responsible for some kind of first contact alien autopsy guilt

:rolmao:

 

[Gary]

Looks like some mutant polypore to me - cant find its likes in Roger Phillips. If you go back there Rob open it up - if the insides all white ect then I think it is a polypore. Remember that is only the friut of the fungi so maybe it was damaged and grew malformed.

Either that or ................ look a green flash coming from the surface of mars!

 

[Rob]

Just strange that there are 2 all of a sudden.

Maybe I will wrap my head in tin-foil to fend off the satellites and poke one of them with something a bit sharper next time I am down there.

 

[Adi007]

:rolmao: :rolmao: :rolmao:
You guys are cracking me up!

 

[steve a]

Rob, if you really want to know what it is, e-mail the pici to Mycology dept. at Kew, Mycology@rbgkew.org.uk telling them date seen, what it was growing on, type of woodland etc. If they can't identify it I don't know who can.

 

[Gary]

If you find out Rob let us all know the answer too!

 

[Justin Time]

hmmm, just wondering if it was made of silicon......

 

[Rob]

):

Now, now.

But I will spread the word once I get an answer

 

[Gary]

Made of silicon - well if its an unknown species we can call it - Jordan's Bracket.

 

[al]

smoky mountain DNA yall, off topic, gary you like your wolves, did you see that programme about the yellowstone wolves the other night ?

 

[Gary]

Seen it several times - in fact I just completed an on-line theory course in wolf and wild life management and that was one of the reference works.

Brilliant. Why?

 

[al]

just wondered , i saw it and was blown away by it, what a project to work on,what a privelidge too

 

[Gary]

Anyone could do it - just search on line loads of centres do similar courses. Its a great way to explore the theory of many outdoor subjects and to get the old noodle ticking over. You just need to have the time too did it.

 

[al]

cool i`ll have a look, just offered my time to kent wildlife trust too fro volunteer work

 

[Gary]

Thats the way to do it - I do volunteer conversation work for the woodland trust and epping forest volunteers when I get time - gets you out doing some good and helps with the bushcraft training etc at the same time.