Two in one week! I am dead set on this catching up thing. This maze-like clump is called northern tooth and it's found mostly on maples, which is the tree it's on here. You typically see it associated with wounds though, so I fibbed a little bit on that. But in my defense, this is a terrible looking maple that was unfortunate enough to have someone plant it DIRECTLY underneath an overhead electric line (don't do that people! ever! unless you want your tree pruned in a very tragic way). And in defense of the tree's feelings here, it's not ALWAYS terrible looking. This little guy does have wonderful fall color; I just always feel bad about it's misfortunes as I'm jogging by... Along with the other 5 maples planted in line with it, ALSO under the utility lines. But I digress...

Here are two links to more information about northern tooth. I typically like to post the Mushroom Expert profiles with each of these forms, but for some reason it didn't have any photos showing the growth habit that is portrayed here, so that's why I included the second link.

Northern Tooth....... one || two

This structure was knitted as part of my 52 Forms of Fungi project, through which I will knit a different type of fungi for every week of 2013. Check out more of the forms from this project.