More humongous fungus

After our previous post on the topic, EV Fungi reader Jackson Gilkey, a gardener at La Plaza Cultural on Ninth Street and Avenue C, shared the above photo... of that yellow fungus growing on the smaller willow. Jackson notes that you can see it from Ninth Street near the western end of the garden by the gazebo.

Consensus seems to be that this is chicken of the woods.

The humongus fungus among us (aka, What the hell is that?)

Goggla shares these photos (and that was her headline!) from Tompkins Square Park... showing some kind of blooming fungus exploding from the tree closest to the recycling bins across from the men's room.

And for scale, here is the thing next to a squirrel...



Perhaps it's a chicken of the woods? Where's a mycologist when you need one?