Key Identification Features
- Emerges from white egg
- matures into 2–5 spongy orange columns fused at top covered with dark olive fetid slime
- columns arch upward and join at apex
- distinctive column structure differs from cage fungi
- found in SE and SW US
⚠ Inedible: This species is not considered edible. It may be unpalatable, too tough, or otherwise unsuitable for consumption — but it is not known to be dangerously toxic. Do not eat it.
Regions Found
Region data not available
Look-Alikes
No documented look-alikes on record.
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