SalemScott Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 So back I went to my favorite woods today to check out some areas I didn't hit yesterday. Soon after arriving I found an old, dried up chicken of the woods. Until today I've never found one that wasn't dried up and inedible. After spying a patch of blown down oak trees I came upon a broken stump with many young chickens on it. The knife has a 2 1/2" blade for size refernce. After a while longer I came upon a stump with what I again believe are young honey mushrooms. Help confirming would be appreciated. One mushroom I wasn't expecting to find was one small clump of oyster mushrooms. The next two types of mushroom I have no idea what they are, I didn't bring any home so I won't be able to get a spore print on them. The bright orange things I thought were little pieces of orange plastic strewn about the ground until I plucked one up, very odd. After finding another nice flush of chicken of the woods I decided to hike to another section I wanted to check out. I came across one log with these two types of mushrooms growing on them. Not sure what the first mushroom type is but I believe the second is called 'bear lentinus' according to my field guide. What's your thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianf Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 The orange/yellow scaley capped mushroom growing on the log is pholiota squarrosa......not as certain about it's edibility as I am it's cousin, P.Squarrosoides. Up until recently I just tossed it in the armillaria catagory, set straight by DaveW. Have finally done my research on pholiota. The second orange fungus, the strewn about plastic, is most likely tremiscus helvelloides. Link here: http://www.mushroomexpert.com/phlogiotis_helvelloides.html. It can be red, orange, yellow, and anything in between. Cultivated t.helvelloides is also edible raw, you can never be certain with mushrooms growing wild I guess. I grow this one at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Cluster on stump (3rd photo) looks like Honeys. Caps with orangish scales (after the Oyster Mushroom photo) is a species of Pholiota. Fungus that looks like orange peels is... Orange Peel Fungus, Aleuria aurantia. http://www.mushroomexpert.com/aleuria_aurantia.html Gilled mushroom hiding underneath the hummock of needles... not confident about this one. Maybe a species of Pholiota. Lentinellus ursinus looks like a good proposal for the last ones. Also, check Panus conchatus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianf Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Orange Peel fungus is new to me.......can you eat it? Where along the line of jelly fungus does this one slip in Dave? I take too much for granted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 It's a "cup fungus", an ascomycete fungus which forms cup, ear, or funnel shaped fruit bodies out of flesh that's usually brittle/fragile. I don't see Aleuria aurantia very often. Here's an observations form 2012. Bill Roody says it's edible but flavorless. Similar, but much smaller ascomycete cup fungus are the red/orange Sarcoscypha species. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianf Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Cool to know! Thanks! I've only picked/eaten wild tremiscus a few times, I now wonder if I've ever misidentified this mushroom in the past. This winter might be spent expanding my jelly fungus knowledge base. Though, that time will probably be better spent developing a more solid knowledge base of pholiota and armillaria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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