I agree with Jack-o-Lantern Mushroom. Other websites say it is poisonous and can give a serious stomach ache that lasts a few days. Don't think it would kill you... just make you wish you were dead. Good lesson, don't eat wild mushrooms!!! I learned the hard way when I was four. Kids dared me to eat a mushroom found in the woods, I survived after a dose of Ipecac Syrup and a trip to the Emergency Room.
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I've never seen them, except on Super Mario Brothers.
I've seen that type, but they are usually tan or brown.
I think it might be a jack-o-lantern mushroom. They're supposed to give off an eerie greenish glow in a dark room.
Well, the skin does look like pumpkin skin. It's orange and quite glossy. Almost plastic looking.
It looks like it might be a form of bracket fungus.
http://www.answers.com/topic/bracket-fungus
Joe
I agree with Jack-o-Lantern Mushroom. Other websites say it is poisonous and can give a serious stomach ache that lasts a few days. Don't think it would kill you... just make you wish you were dead. Good lesson, don't eat wild mushrooms!!! I learned the hard way when I was four. Kids dared me to eat a mushroom found in the woods, I survived after a dose of Ipecac Syrup and a trip to the Emergency Room.
This looks like a "Hemlock Varnish Shelf" Polypore. They can grow up to a foot across.
http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1301004
Yours looks nearly identical to the pic in the National Audubon Society's Guide to mushrooms. Plate 515.
Cheers,
Jen
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