A bright orange fungus, growing along Creek Road in Upper Darby, PA.

Bright Orange Fungus

I really need a better camera, and a tripod would come in handy. I love macro photography. All I have at present is a dinky Kodak Easy Share.

My found mushroom is the Sulphur Shelf Mushroom. I have been tempted to harvest it, but it’s a little too close to the side of the road. Three roads converge at that point, and when it rains, all of the fertilizer, gas, oil, and other street funk pours down the road and soaks the area where this mushroom is growing.

http://americanmushrooms.com/edibles4.htm

http://mushroom-collecting.com/mushroomchickens.html

http://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/?p=52

I wonder if there is a way for me to transport the thing–log and all-to my place. It’s only a matter of time before one of the local idiot children find it and destroy it.