We came upon a downed tree next to the river that had some spongy orange things growing from the cracks. I told them this was a kind of mushroom called witch’s butter.

Now I see about 5 or 6 with orange tentacles on the tree; there may be more. Weird looking, aren’t they? These are cedar-apple rust galls that grow on our native Eastern red cedar… ...

When a mushroom is growing on the trunk or roots of a living tree, it indicates that there is a fungus growing in the tree’s ...