This is Northern coral...

It does look just like Coral though Lori...let's name it Lori's Coral Fungus!

Isn't nature wonderful , can you eat this one Lori ?

LOL... I have so much research yet to do, Karen...I'm sure it has a proper name and will be sure to update.
Amy: That's just about the first thing on every descriptive page...edible or poisonous?(will update on this too) One thing I have learned regards the morels I found spring before last...because they were spring fungii it's safe to eat them...as the false morel which is not edible is an autumn fungus. Also ...there is a mycelium in the U.S.midwest that is the largest living thing on the continent! It's fascinating...and it's taking forever to collect all the data for the blog.

It sounds like a lot of studying on your part Lori ,good luck with it ,I shall look forward to reading your blog :o))

You couldn't eat that fungus......it is too elegant to be eaten, if not poisonous. They were talking about one of those mycelliums on TV recently. About how they link up and grow to a great age as well.

Puff...puff...I'm getting there, Amy! ;-)
Dorjac:...and they are totally unnoticed by most of us...it draws a person to learn more about them.

It's beautiful! It does look like coral.

fab fungi photos Lori :o)

Thanks D1 and Sandra! I posted this pic on a University forum...and was told that it could be either Hericium coralloides...or H. americanus, depending on the length of the "teeth"...and that the specimen in my picture seemed to have been degraded somehow as it wasn't obvious which it was by simple observation. Would have to take out a measuring device to measure the teeth to be 100% accurate! Blimey!
and according to lore it is edible...but please don't eat it on my account! if there's anything I've learned from all this reading and searching it's don't eat strange fungi!

Stunning So Pretty.

Hard to believe it's been a whole year since I started this blog study....I've been distracted by many other "projects" since. Will have to regroup. I never realized just how large the body of info on fungi actually is...and I got mired in detail trying to identify all the different types I have photographed. Wanted to compile pictures of the spring fungi but forgot until it was too late in the season! I apologize for dropping the ball. I plead old age. Since I have close to 100 photos of all different types of fungi (mostly autumn) I really must organize and categorize and do that blog thing. ah me.....

We had a TV programme recently that showed slime mould (speeded up) spreading in autumn and consuming a white funghi growing on a log. They said on that show that there were far more funghi species than plants! So you have a big task Lori. They have a huge job to do digesting fallen trees, so not surprising there are so many needed.

There is so much info on the net. I've spent months reading and searching and I still pose question after question on myco sites that go unanswered. Mycology is a huge subject. I have many fallen trees as we have had our first brush with the Witch of November. Very high winds and we were without power for 33-1/2 hours out of 36, when one of the poor old trees fell across some hydro wires. Along with the fungi and slime moulds the mosses are lovely and interesting too. Have to take another pic of the old fungus and mould and moss devoured stumps and trees up on the hill.