I Found This Strange Object Stuck to My Fence — What Could It Be?
The strange shape may remind some people of a morel or a related fungus.
True morels have distinctive honeycomb-like caps, while some other fungi commonly confused with them have irregular, wrinkled or brain-like surfaces.
However, the object in this photograph does not provide enough information to confidently identify it as a true morel.
A true morel generally has a characteristic pitted or honeycomb cap rather than simply broad rounded folds. Its relationship between cap and stem is also important for identification.
There are also false morels with wrinkled, brain-like caps that can look very different from true morels.
Some false morels are poisonous, which is one reason photographs of unidentified mushroom-like objects should never be used as proof that something is edible.
For this reason, do not eat the object shown in the photograph.
