5/26/2011: Stranger than Fiction

While out looking for Lady Slippers in one of the two places where I know they grow last Saturday, I came across these…growing on a dead birch sapling in the deep forest. Never seen the like, but some research on Google, and a not so inspired guess considering how they look, identified them as Jelly Fungus.

Honestly…you just could not make these things up! It is called Witches’ Butter in eastern Europe, and compounds extracted from it have proven effective in stopping the growth of certain cancers in white mice. Stranger and stranger.

Nikon Coolpix P500 in Close Up mode (macro) at 32mm equivalent field of view. 1) f3.7 @ 1/100th @ ISO 160. 2) 1/80th.

Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness. #2 was cropped from the left for composition.

Oh…and the Lady Slippers were just poking through the ground.

One Comment

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    Diane Porter May 26, 2011

    How interesting. I love how the light shines through them, like through jelly!

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