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Looks like a Flying Saucer crashed into a tree but it's really a Red-belted Polypore mushroom.

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I instantly thought of this, from Douglas Adams:

 

After millennia of battle the surviving G'Gugvuntt and Vl'hurg realised what had actually happened, and joined forces to attack the Milky Way in retaliation. They crossed vast reaches of space in a journey lasting thousands of years before reaching their target where they attacked the first planet they encountered, Earth. Due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was swallowed by a small dog. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy states that this sort of thing happens all the time.
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Bill,

Looks like a shelf fungus or conk. I don't advise it but some consume them in the form of a tea as a tonic or dried and ground as medicinal powders. I was told by my mycology prof they taste like old socks and wood. I took his word for it.

 

Some trivia... When dried and soaked in lamp oil they burn for hours and were used as such. Some have pores on the bottom that when scratched turn from white or yellow to a brown line. Called artist conks, they used to be collected, drawn on and varnished then sold.

 

The one you captured seems to be the one commonly called the Turkey Tail Conk to my eye but I was NOT a plant or fungi guy.

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