Was walking through the woods today and saw these mushrooms growing on a fallen tree. I thought they looked very pretty.

Never tried to ID a mushroom outside a grocery store before, but it looks like turkey tail.

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    1 year ago

    Very nice picture! I like trying to ID and photograph shrooms when I’m hiking as well. And collect when it’s legal and positive ID.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve gotten a few cool mushroom pics, I love the variety of shapes and colors you can find. I got a really neat bright orange one before, otherwise this is probably the prettiest one I’ve seen.

      There’s been a lot of fallen trees on our property this year, so I’ll have to keep my eyes open!

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        1 year ago

        Bright orange can be really cool. Could be jack o’lanterns (which I have found but never actually got to see glow) or chicken of the the woods which I have found and ate, have some in my freezer right now in fact. Or they could be totally different depending on time and location.

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          There did seem to be a number of articles about cancer fighting properties from modern sources as well as more traditional home remedy ones. I’ll have to read more about them.

          I can say they made me feel better though by being so pretty!

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        1 year ago

        Thank you for clarifying. That was my takeaway from reading the polypores Wikipedia article.

        Conks are all mushrooms, but not all mushrooms are conks.

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      Neat, I hadn’t heard that term before. I’ll have to read more about them.

      On a convenient note, the wiki for polypores had a pic of the orange “mushroom” I had found.