Can anyone idientify this organism? Location north Taiwan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31096431@N05/4490307468/
Thanks in advance!
Sorry I can’t identify it for you. Some kind of fungus, isn’t it?
I am really perplexed. I also thought it looked like some sort of fungal fruiting body. I can’t see anything like it online but will keep searching. Thanks anyway.
Looks like a kind of coral fungi (Clavarioid fungi).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavarioid_fungi
Pay me $1000 per hour and I’ll try to identify it down to the species level. 
Does it taste good?
I’d peg that as a mini-saguaro, perhaps Saguaro croceominimus.
and if you taste it and by some slim chance urodacus is wrong and you die? Oh well, happens … 
[quote=“antarcticbeech”]Looks like a kind of coral fungi (Clavarioid fungi).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavarioid_fungi
Pay me $1000 per hour and I’ll try to identify it down to the species level. [/quote]
I don’t think so.
I would say probably
http://blog.xuite.net/ml1120/bioblog/14156300
It is living on green algae which makes the whole organism technically a Lichen. So this maybe is an orange jelly fungus but slightly different due to mutations or because of its symbiotic relationship with the algae.
I don’t know, but it is fun to google.
Yeah fungi are fun. Lots of weird shapes and colors. Nothing like them! 
Mycology is a nerd’s paradise.
fungi?
[quote=“fenlander”]Can anyone idientify this organism? Location north Taiwan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31096431@N05/4490307468/
Thanks in advance![/quote]
I don’t know, but this sorta looks like it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacrymycetes
According to this article (pdf), they’ve been reported at least once in Taiwan (I only read that part, and I read in a hurry, but I think that’s what it said): persoonia.org/Issue/23/03.pdf
[quote=“Charlie Jack”][quote=“fenlander”]Can anyone idientify this organism? Location north Taiwan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31096431@N05/4490307468/
Thanks in advance![/quote]
I don’t know, but this sorta looks like it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacrymycetes
According to this article (pdf), they’ve been reported at least once in Taiwan (I only read that part, and I read in a hurry, but I think that’s what it said): persoonia.org/Issue/23/03.pdf[/quote]
Yah I mentioned the jelly fungus a page or so back but your articles seem to point even more strongly in that direction. The article also mentions that the Jelly fungus can range in colour from yellow to orange and the morphology can be very similar to that seen in the picture. Thanks the pdf was excellent 
[quote=“fenlander”][quote=“Charlie Jack”][quote=“fenlander”]Can anyone idientify this organism? Location north Taiwan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31096431@N05/4490307468/
Thanks in advance![/quote]
I don’t know, but this sorta looks like it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacrymycetes
According to this article (pdf), they’ve been reported at least once in Taiwan (I only read that part, and I read in a hurry, but I think that’s what it said): persoonia.org/Issue/23/03.pdf[/quote]
Yah I mentioned the jelly fungus a page or so back but your articles seem to point even more strongly in that direction. The article also mentions that the Jelly fungus can range in colour from yellow to orange and the morphology can be very similar to that seen in the picture. Thanks the pdf was excellent [/quote]
You’re welcome!
Dang, I’m going senile. I thought I’d read the whole thread.
I kept looking on Google Images for a fungus that looked exactly like the one in your picture, but I couldn’t find one. I think a lot of the pics that I saw on the 'net were taken in England, so for a while I thought it wouldn’t be found in Asia, till I saw that pdf–apparently there’s a lot of it in Japan. The article said that the one report of it being in Taiwan was in 1989. I guess it’s kind of rare here.
Some guys on the board appear quite knowledgeable about the plants here (for all I know, you may be one of the knowledgeable ones), and they tromp around in the boonies a lot, so hopefully one or more of them will weigh in on whether they’ve seen it anywhere.
[quote=“Charlie Jack”][quote=“fenlander”][quote=“Charlie Jack”][quote=“fenlander”]Can anyone idientify this organism? Location north Taiwan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31096431@N05/4490307468/
Thanks in advance![/quote]
I don’t know, but this sorta looks like it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacrymycetes
According to this article (pdf), they’ve been reported at least once in Taiwan (I only read that part, and I read in a hurry, but I think that’s what it said): persoonia.org/Issue/23/03.pdf[/quote]
Yah I mentioned the jelly fungus a page or so back but your articles seem to point even more strongly in that direction. The article also mentions that the Jelly fungus can range in colour from yellow to orange and the morphology can be very similar to that seen in the picture. Thanks the pdf was excellent [/quote]
You’re welcome!
Dang, I’m going senile. I thought I’d read the whole thread.
I kept looking on Google Images for a fungus that looked exactly like the one in your picture, but I couldn’t find one. I think a lot of the pics that I saw on the 'net were taken in England, so for a while I thought it wouldn’t be found in Asia, till I saw that pdf–apparently there’s a lot of it in Japan. The article said that the one report of it being in Taiwan was in 1989. I guess it’s kind of rare here.
Some guys on the board appear quite knowledgeable about the plants here (for all I know, you may be one of the knowledgeable ones), and they tromp around in the boonies a lot, so hopefully one or more of them will weigh in on whether they’ve seen it anywhere.[/quote]
Yah although mycology is a different area. There are one or two guys that know quite a bit about “shrooms” as opposed to fungi in general. I find fungi far more interesting than plants and have seen some awesome fly agaric mushrooms here. When the weather cools off just go out after a heavy rainfall and you will see some fantastic fungi. Taiwan being dark, wet and warm is a great place for this kind of thing (okay Tommy I am waiting for you to comment on that last sentence) :roflmao:
Speaking of interesting fungi, I assume you’re familiar with this?
[quote]The largest living organism ever found has been discovered in an ancient American forest.
The Armillaria ostoyae, popularly known as the honey mushroom, started from a single spore too small to see without a microscope. It has been spreading its black shoestring filaments, called rhizomorphs, through the forest for an estimated 2,400 years, killing trees as it grows. It now covers 2,200 acres (880 hectares) of the Malheur National Forest, in eastern Oregon.
The outline of the giant fungus stretches 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometres) across, and it extends an average of three feet (one metre) into the ground. It covers an area as big as 1,665 football fields. . .
On the surface, the only evidence of the fungus are clumps of golden mushrooms that pop up in the autumn with the rain. . . [/quote]
independent.co.uk/news/scien … 10278.html
[quote=“Mother Theresa”]Speaking of interesting fungi, I assume you’re familiar with this?
[quote]The largest living organism ever found has been discovered in an ancient American forest.
The Armillaria ostoyae, popularly known as the honey mushroom, started from a single spore too small to see without a microscope. It has been spreading its black shoestring filaments, called rhizomorphs, through the forest for an estimated 2,400 years, killing trees as it grows. It now covers 2,200 acres (880 hectares) of the Malheur National Forest, in eastern Oregon.
The outline of the giant fungus stretches 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometres) across, and it extends an average of three feet (one metre) into the ground. It covers an area as big as 1,665 football fields. . .
On the surface, the only evidence of the fungus are clumps of golden mushrooms that pop up in the autumn with the rain. . . [/quote]
independent.co.uk/news/scien … 10278.html[/quote]
Yeah thanks I read that one and it is amazing. Incredible!