Nestled in and around the decaying stump of a Cedar Elm tree at the @ZilkerBotanicalGarden is an unusual sight: Butterscotch-colored, leathery stars bursting forth from a blanket of dead leaves. Angel Schatz carefully approaches the whimsically shaped fungi to get a closer look. “Wow! Look at this one!” she says. “We have a seven-pointed star here, which is really typical and it’s just looking gorgeous today. Some really large stars.” Schatz is one of the organizers of the Central Texas Mycologi