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[elkhound]

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So this one was confusing to me. At first glance I thought one of the Ganoderma species (yes a mushroom) and it is indeed a polypore with white pores underneath. But, it wasn't shiny, which *could* potentially check out if it's been dried out and what really stumped me is it was growing from the ground and Ganoderma typically grows on wood. So unless there was wood underneath that soil, I dunno

reishi ?

growing off a root?

@Binky got a clue what this is?

 

[Pearl]

GANODERMA CURTISII!!! @elkhound !!!!!!!!

 

[elkhound]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma

 

[elkhound]

GANODERMA CURTISII!!! @elkhound !!!!!!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma_curtisii

 

[Pearl]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma

AKA Ganoderma Oregonense!!

 

[Pearl]

Is this a new forum game??

 

[elkhound]

AKA Ganoderma Oregonense!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma_oregonense

the ones i seen here have a very small white line on edge...only seen on old growth hemlock and red spruce.

 

[elkhound]

Is this a new forum game??

reishi is good medical stuff...i dont know much about it..but others be along shortly...binky will chime in probably.

 

[elkhound]

Is this a new forum game??

iced in here....only photo i could show is of an icicle right now...this sucks....mother nature lock down...lol

 

[zannej]

Bethesda in the new cat hammock. I put a "cuddler" bed on the bottom part (set it up on the kitchen table) and Yasuke likes the cuddler.

Bethesda and Yasuke

 

[Lenny]

You have money coming out of your neck!

I lived is Council Bluffs, Iowa for about 20 years. Iowa is the first state that presidential candidates go to during presidential elections. Since I helped out in the Republican Party, I got to be in the front row. There were thousands of people there but Trump was only able to interact with the first two or three rows.

 

[RJ2019]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma_curtisii

I'm really glad to see my first instinct on this one seems to be the consensus. Awful odd place for Ganoderma to be growing, though. It was growing out of the edge of a dirt bank at the end of my street. If y'all are really interested I think I took pics of the pore surface too.

 

[elkhound]

I'm really glad to see my first instinct on this one seems to be the consensus. Awful odd place for Ganoderma to be growing, though. It was growing out of the edge of a dirt bank at the end of my street. If y'all are really interested I think I took pics of the pore surface too.

dont go by what i say...i know nothing about them...just seen a time or two is all.

lets see cut bank and how far from trees or possible buried stumps and roots etc.

 

[RJ2019]

dont go by what i say...i know nothing about them...just seen a time or two is all.

lets see cut bank and how far from trees or possible buried stumps and roots etc.

I'll try to walk down there and take more pics this evening. It wasn't particularly close to trees but there's some oak and Grey pine nearby. Here's the pore surface and another cap photo that shows the bank in the background.

 

[DrHenley]

Fire in the sky. Taken this afternoon from the deer stand. The sun is setting, but is being relected off of ice clouds.

 

[Binky]

@Binky got a clue what this is?

I'd need to examine it and squeeze it for woodiness or sponginess, and cut a cross-cut sliver out of it to come to a conclusion, but I can tell you what it looks like to me going by just that picture.

It looks like Fistulina hepatica, a.k.a. the beefsteak fungus, that I sometimes see growing here. They'll grow like a shelf fungus on the sides of wood and will also grow up out of mosses that are growing on top of rotting wood in the ground. They're edible.

Pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=fis...AEMyAEAmAICoAIEmAMAiAYBkgcBMqAHAA&sclient=img

 

[RJ2019]

I'd need to examine it and squeeze it for woodiness or sponginess, and cut a cross-cut sliver out of it to come to a conclusion, but I can tell you what it looks like to me going by just that picture.

It looks like Fistulina hepatica, a.k.a. the beefsteak fungus, that I sometimes see growing here. They'll grow like a shelf fungus on the sides of wood and will also grow up out of mosses that are growing on top of rotting wood in the ground. They're edible.

Pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=fis...AEMyAEAmAICoAIEmAMAiAYBkgcBMqAHAA&sclient=img

That would explain a lot! I found this awhile back and didn't cut it open, the kids were getting impatient with me when I stopped to check it out.

 

[Binky]

That would explain a lot! I found this awhile back and didn't cut it open, the kids were getting impatient with me when I stopped to check it out.

Well if you can keep the location in mind keep an eye out for more growing around there when they're typically in season. Pick one and cut a sample sliver slice out of it to compare with the sliced sliver samples shown in the above google images. They're a bizarre mushroom because the juices that are sometimes seen dripping from them looks like beef blood dripping from raw meat, but apparently they taste quite delicious and they're a delicacy in the eastern hemisphere.