FungiFriday: The pink mess

This is probably my last fungus for the season, it's become very hot and dry and the only time we really see fungi in this area and climate is for a few weeks in summer when it rains heavily.

I have no idea what this is, it started growing on a cut privet stump in my garden for a few weeks over summer but then disintegrated when it became hotter and drier. Maybe it would have made a woodier structure like a bracket fungus if the weather had remained cool and rainy, I don't know.

People with sharp eyes will spot a second fungus in the background: that little white blur is a tiny little split gill fungus, a type that is found all over the world. Someone told me that they are edible but you'd have to find a lot of these before you could cook anything with them.

Here's a slightly better picture of it on another dead tree stump

All these tree stumps everywhere make it sound like I'm a tree killer. Not so, I was just trimming the invasives and when I fixed the poor drainage around my house, they all died, since they aren't truly suited to the hot, dry climate here.

#fungifriday is an initiative started by @ewkaw. No prizes involved, just a day to post fungi