Turkey Tail

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨anon6789@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mycology@mander.xyz⁩

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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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Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Those aren’t mushrooms, they’re conks

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- anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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.
  
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- acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  All conks are mushrooms.
  
  A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source.
  
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  - anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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