Hi- I hope someone can relieve my mind about this. I live in Cleveland, where they have the "Emerald Necklace" ring of metroparks. Today, I went there on a picnic with my family, and was getting food out onto a picnic table, when my son noticed that there was fungus growing out of the end of the picnic table, and I was leaning up against it. I stepped back, but not before the wet fungus (it had rained earlier) had left wet, bright yellow stains on my pants. I did not have my camera with me, but the fungus was a group flattish semicircles of rusty-red fungus with bright yellow edges. The underneath part was sort of brainish looking bright yellow, and the larger ones had a little bit of an upside-down cup shape to them. Is this something I should be worried about, or can I just throw the pants into the wash with my children's clothing? I know this is probably silly, but I don't know much about fungus, just that it can be poisonous. Thank you, Looking forward to an answer soon.
I have no guesses about the specific identity of the fungus. However, no one has ever gotten poisoned by just touching a fungus (with a few possible rare exceptions of dermotological reactions to a few particular fungi that you probably don't even have in Ohio). No need to worry.
