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BLOSSOMBUDDY wrote:
Exidia glandulosa looked it up.. came away with a couple websites

http://healing-mushrooms.net/archives/exidia-glandulosa.html

Ok, Common name >>> called Witches Butter. Sounds evil.

On my end here, mine looks like it froze to death last night (YAY!)
and it got all "papery" Quick, get a vacuum! We could bag it and tag it! LOL

Seriously though if this fungus is sooo goood, what is so fabulous about it? if it has any value at all, what is it? Other than a ruddy nuisance under my feet? Gimme one good reason why we should not kill it... well maybe more than one if you have them...! If its sposed to love wood so much, why does it insist on growing on my rocks????

After a rain, it will be back.. ugh!

And hey, if someone is driving on rcn48s driveway, wont the stuff migrate to infest another area? Good Gads there, there goes your insurance.. I can see it now, the headlines will read "NEIGHBOR BREAKS HIP IN SLIP AND GIVES LANDOWNER FAT LIP?" Nope, dont want that to happen. Need sign: CAUTION BEWARE OF OOZE!

According to what I read, they used to throw this stuff on a fire to dispell witchcraft.