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.
Turkey Tail
Submitted 5 months ago by anon6789@lemmy.world to mycology@mander.xyz
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Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Those aren’t mushrooms, they’re conks
anon6789@lemmy.world 5 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 5 months ago
All conks are mushrooms.
anon6789@lemmy.world 5 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.