[mrs bouquet]

there are hundreds of them appearing in a long tree-bark covered area in my mothers garden.  They are bright orange.  She is anxious about them and has asked me to get rid.
But I don't know how to do that.   -   Do I pick them all out, or what ?   Your urgent advice would be appreciated as she is doing my head.    Thanks, Mrs Bouquet

[tode]

Have you got a photo ? Most are inoffensive.

[sunshineband]

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/wildlife/fungi_sulphur_tuft.html

Are they sulphur tuft?

These are common in November on old tree trunks 

[Spana]

Are they like this?  Got them coming up everywhere in our old orchard.

[mrs bouquet]

Are they like this?  Got them coming up everywhere in our old orchard.

No they are bright orange and look like a fitted carpet    Mrs Bouquet

[sunshineband]

I think I have had a brainwave.... these are not growing on an old tree trunk at all I just didn't read your post properly Mrs B .. ssorry!

They are growing on the bark mulch itself arent they?
That makes it likely that they are an iported species from the southern hemisphere called Stropharia aurantiaca (I think I've spelt it rigth) that can grwo on great mats at this time in the year.

The common name is Redlead Roundhead and I can't remember if they are poisonous.

I'll see if I can find a google pic link .... bear with me a minute

OK here it is. Have a look and see if it might be the ones

http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Leratiomyces-ceres.htm

[mrs bouquet]

thanks everybody for your replies.  I think they seem to resemble the ones Sunshineband has spoken about.
Anyway, I have told Mother they look really pretty, and she told me - Oh well, a squirrel has been nibbling them for the last couple of days - .  I have assured her a squirrel would not nibble a poisonous fungi, they are much too clever for that.   So at the moment they remain, and they look really colourful as well.  If the squirrels (or insects beneath) are enjoying them, so be it.   Mother will have to get over it    thanks again, Mrs Bouquet

[tode]

A diplomatic solution   

[sunshineband]

Or a squirrel with tummy ache