Funny you mentioned Jelly Fungi Ken

[beetleman]

Here is a picture I took a few days ago of something on a branch on the ground in the local cemetery. Not sure what it is. The second picture I took last year of a branch on the ground along the side of the road. "Could they be the same thing?" Ken mentioned jelly fungi in this post;
http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... .php?t=581
So I hunted down the old picture and I am posting them together.

Only around 6mm in diameter


This specimen was around 5cm in diameter

[DaveW]

Don't know if it's this one:-

http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/id_gu ... terica.htm

http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Trem ... erica.html

Or even this one:-

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/JELLY/newpage2.htm

DaveW

[beetleman]

Fantastic links Dave...it almost looks like I might have two different fungi. Look at the date of the second picture, I took that in February and I remember I was surprised to see it. We had a warm spell, and the snow had melted down. The sand on it is from the road sand they put down on the roads for the snow. I also took a pic in march, and the thing was shriveled up. "Yellow Brain Fungus" Cool . The first one, I will have to keep an eye on and see what developes. I took the branch and put it in a safe place so the cemetery workers would not pick it up. Again, thank you for doing the research and the links (bookmarking them now)

[Ken Ramos]

Looks as though Dave hit it right on the mark there Doug. Yellow Brain Fungus. For some reason I was surprised that the article stated that it grows only in winter and then becomes a hard bracket during the summer. If I remember right, I have found numerous jelly-like fungi during the winter months. Great image, you captured it well Doug.