Out moving a stand for bow season in ohio. What kind off mushroom is this?

Hunter? I doan know squat about mushrooms! I'm sure that somebody will chime in with definite knowledge of what it is and if You can eat it. GOOD HUNTING & BLESSED BE! BATMAN

Thems is Chickens. Delicious by the way.

We got a good batch of them last weekend.

Sulfur Shelf. aka Chicken of the woods.

They're ok, imo. Not the best, but not bad. Very prolific. I've picked over 50 lbs from a single tree. Popping up like crazy right now.

Those in your pic are middle-aged. I would give them some field tests before I decided to pick them and haul them home. I prefer young ones as they're more tender throughout.

Look first at the outer edges. Young ones look like puffy lips along the edge. The older they get, the thinner the edges become, relatively speaking. Bend test them beyond their halfway point. Young ones will bend 45 degrees before they crack and break. Older ones are more brittle and woody... and eat like it. With these shrooms, assess conservatively. They're everywhere now, young ones are worth the extra mile.

Ended up harvesting them. This is what i got. They didn't grow on this log. They are just sitting there for a picture.

It's kind of an individual taste thing. We really like them here. Thanks to Jeff Durnell, we have expanded our mushroom horizons with Hens, Chickens, Lion's Mane, and others I can't remember. It can get addictive too. Oh, I forgot Chanterelles.

How to cook them?

George, it makes me happy to know you guys are enjoying a variety of wild mmushrooms. The hunt, harvest, and flavor is gratifying and they promote good health.

Zbone, I've used Sulfurs in many recipes with satisfactory results. If you use too much of them in any one recipe, they can test your limits, because they're strong-flavored by most folks' standards... at least relative to the most benign, popular shrooms offered in stores. I love wild mushrooms and mushroom flavor, but when my wife made a high stacked sulfur shelf lasagna, by substituting sulfurs for all the pasta, it was too much for me after several bites.

I like to slice them into 3/8 to 1/2" wide and quickly pan fry them in olive oil, butter, onions, peppers, and garlic as a side or topping on deer steaks, for instance.

Or... keep them whole and bake them in a pan coated liberally with olive oil, under spaghetti sauce and cheese... and use them like chicken parm...

Bake it. Fry it. Treat it like chicken.... ala Chicken of the woods.

I'm always leery about wild mushrooms. However, this summer they were abundant on the 3D course. With all the expertise available here on the leatherwall, could someone name the following?

I'm always leery about wild mushrooms. However, this summer they were abundant on the 3D course. With all the expertise available here on the leatherwall, could someone name the following?

I'm always leery about wild mushrooms. However, this summer they were abundant on the 3D course. With all the expertise available here on the leatherwall, could someone name the following?

I'm always leery about wild mushrooms. However, this summer they were abundant on the 3D course. With all the expertise available here on the leatherwall, could someone name the following?

I'm always leery about wild mushrooms. However, this summer they were abundant on the 3D course. With all the expertise available here on the leatherwall, could someone name the following?

I'm always leery about wild mushrooms. However, this summer they were abundant on the 3D course. With all the expertise available here on the leatherwall, could someone name the following?

And I'm told this is Chicken of the Woods.

X2 on getting your chickens while they're young. It should be like cutting scrambled eggs or brie cheese when you put the knife to it--if it's tougher than that, I leave it right on the log.

Wild Bill, your top mushroom is one called "old man." It's called edible, but it's no real prize. The next one down, with many bright orange caps, is jack o'lantern, and that one will definitely make you sick. As they say, "you won't die from it; you'll just wish you could." None of your next three are safe, either..hard ones to ID, with dangerous lookalikes. The white coral mushroom is especially tricky; some corals are fine, and some are sickeners.

It's turning into a good fall for 'shrooms up here in Maine; lately I've been eating hens, porcini, and horse mushroom. I'll try and post some pix in a bit here.

Those first orange ones were Jacks, Wild Bill...not edible. Jeff's your man for ID'ing the others.

I was going to a new property late year and saw on the way there some beauty's on a persons lawn and thought Hmm got to get me some.LOL

Didn't make it back that way. I figured next day i'll get. I went by in afternoon and they were gone. Snooze you loose. Now did property owner take them? deer or critter get them or another pirate? LOL

I don't know much about rooms but they looked eatable. I didn't see any dead carcass around or and birds flying in a circle so something survived that got them.

Didn't go by yet this year.

All this rain there should be more around. What ya think and all this humidity too.

I'm not eating that poison

I had a big plate of COTW last weekend, found when leaving one of my deer stands.

I've tried it lots of ways and my favorite is sautéed in olive oil, real butter with slices of green and orange bell peppers, sliced onion in our big Wagner cast iron skillet. A meal fit for a king!

Good rule of thumb is if they are growing in the ground skip them unless you KNOW what they are. Those growing on trees...Oysters..Chicks...Hens...Dryads are usually safe.

Wild mushrooms are to be eaten in moderation per meal as they are stronger than a commercial mushroom. Some people cannot tolerate wild mushrooms and get sick even if they are safe.

Don't look like any hen of the woods I've ever ate. The white one I think is called a cocks comb. Better than morels if that is what it is.

Too much controversary here for me to chance them. I'll get my mushrooms at the store.,lol.,

I found 21 sheepshead this morning. Most were babies and I left them to grow. I also found sulfur shelfs, oysters, puffballs, boletes, and many more that I couldn't identify. The weather is perfect and they're popping up like crazy here.

There were nine of them around his tree, and will probably be more than that by the time they're done.

Just getting started.

A source for beaver fur string silencers? This is a pond I used to fish when I was a kid... and there are 9 sheepshead growing within a stones throw of it on both sides. The beavers have just recently moved in and all of their work looks very fresh.

A guy back home thought he knew what he was doing when it came to mushrooms. Everyone that knew him considered him very knowledgeable. He did make a mistake one time and it was the last one he would ever make.

Be very careful and very sure.

Jeff what your calling a sheepshead looks more like a hen of the woods. They grow at the base of the tree not on it like those. I'm always very leery of eating wild mushrooms. If it ain't morels I ain't interested

Chicken of the Woods is fairly easy to identify. Even a novice shroom entrepreneur like me can identify them with just a little study. Find the fresh, younger ones and man o man are they superb sautéed in a cast iron skillet! Knock-out good!

Sheepsheads are poppin off here in North east Pa too Jeff!!

Yeah those are what I consider hen of the wood. Guess they can go for some big money up in Chicago at the farmers markets. But I'm about as close to there as I want to be. Ole JF must be sleeping or something think he would have chimed in by now on this

Sheepshead, Hen of the Woods, Maitake... all various names for the same shroom.

Nice Rau. I like those copperheads too.

Today was the first day of bow season and I hunted mushrooms. lol. I found a bunch more sheepshead, 65 so far, Sulfur Shelfs aka Chicken mushrooms, a Cauliflower mushroom, dozens of Boletes, and about a dozen smooth Chanterelles. I thought they were out of season, but the recent rains must have given them a little extra encouragement.

Most of the Sheepshead I found were young so I left them to grow.

They all look disgusting, yuck! :-)

Hip

I luv these mushroom identification threads....

How about this big one... Feels like a sponge on the bottom...

Top view, quarter in center for size reference...

It's a type of Bolete. A big one. Which type exactly? I don't know. There are soooo many. My Bolete book alone is 400 pages thick. Could be Boletus edulis, aka King Bolete, which is a choice edible, one of the most highly prized edible mushrooms... but don't take my word for it. I don't want to be responsible for your demise if I'm wrong... and I'm far from knowledgeable about Boletes.

Whenever we ask for identification, pictures of top, side, underneath, closeup of stem, and cross section are helpful, often necessary, as well as where it was found, what types of trees it was near and under.

Here's this morning's cache.

Got about half of them cleaned and in the dehydrator. I think that's more work than butchering a deer.

Look at this flush of chicken!!!!

Thank you Jeff...

I know the feeling Jeff...my porch looks like a retirement home for hen of the woods; they're roosted all across the railing right now. Ten racks going in the dehydrator; four bags sauteed and frozen; ten pound still waiting to be processed and 'bout a hundred pounds out there still on the trees. Also cooked and froze four pounds of porcini today, and ate all the horse mushroom I could stand last week. Black trumpets in the freezer as well...and oysters and bear's head and matsutake still to come! It's been quite a season already.

"four bags sauteed and frozen"

How you guys freezing them, in a bag of water?

Why I asked, after trying a small sample of my big Boletus to confirm safe, would like to save it for later, what the best way to save, dehydrate or freeze.... Thanks

I think most people dehydrate their boletus. I sautée them in butter and olive oil, and freeze them in about 8-oz. portions; tightly packed in double Ziploc bags...and I use them within 6 months. I don't skimp on the lubricant...it helps keep them moist, and it doesn't hurt the taste either!

BTW Zbone the boletus in that picture is past what I would consider a good eating age...and also, one of my golden rules is to never try and identify a mushroom from just one specimen (unless it's one of the "Foolproof Five"). It's a huge help in doing an ID to have multiple specimens at different stages of development. I can think of several instances when that rule has saved me from making a mistake and eating something that wasn't what I thought it was.

crookedstix - "the "Foolproof Five"... Thanks

I know Morels, Pinkys, and Puffballs, what others?

Shaggy manes and chicken mushroom round out the five, as I recall. I would add hen of the woods to the list; there's really nothing else quite like it. And I would remove puffballs, only because the so-called "pigskin poison" puffball is a sickener. It's easy enough to ID, but some people get it in their heads that ALL puffballs are safe...'taint so.

Zbone, add chickens and Hens (Maitake).

And to those of you who say "yuck"....too bad for you and more for us. Sure as hell are much better than anything you'll buy in a can or the produce section of the grocery store. Folks out here in the country learn what's good and what you don't have to waste money on.

Shaggy manes are awesome. Get 'em before they are inky tho...

There should be a big book that has them all listed in categories: edibles, poisonous, and smokables.

Thanks so much guys...

Morels, Chanterelles, Sheepshead, Dryad's Saddles, Sulfur Shelfs, Oyster mushrooms, Cauliflower mushrooms, are all easy to identify edibles with a book or website for reference.

I saw these this morning, don't know what they are, I just thought it would make for a neat picture.

My favorite to this day are the pink gilled white ones found in cow pastures this time of the year. Wild versions of store bought mushrooms. They are the best tasting ones to me. And the only 'sure thing' too. That and big white puffballs.

We always called those 'Brownie caps', esp. the little ones smaller than a dime. Ya couldn't force them down my throat though... :)

I saw this in the Adirondacks yesterday on a mountain hike. I think it is a young Death Angel... Teen Angel, ....

Jeff, yours looks like this.

I sliced open the Boletus (I think), no bluing, notice my thumb prints on the stem, looks good... Think I'm gonna try a couple small slivers in olive oil and butter...

Trapper, is it a young Destroying Angel? Amanita bisporigera.

I found about a dozen of these close together today. Usually I find them singly. Very poisonous. Ingesting half of a single cap can kill you.

Hey Jeff, found a couple other varieties in same area as the Boletus... Think someone told me these were not edible, opposite of Pinkies, these pink cap top skin, white gill... Pinkies white cap, pink gills.... Curious, are these edible?

Looks like a Russula maybe??? There are several kinds of them, and a handful of red ones. Some are edible, some are not... well, some say 'the sickener' can be eaten after cooking. It's not up to me to make that decision for anyone. I've never eaten one.

Guys, I don't like giving advice on whether wild mushrooms are edible unless they're on the list I posted above, easy to identify, and even THEN I don't like doing it, because I don't know how capable folks are... folks who I've never even met. Think about it... wild mushrooms can kill you. You've never met me(or whoever you take random advice from). How careful or careless are others with identification? Do you really want to trust others with your life and a wild mushroom? What about all the others reading these threads? How careful and capable are they? I don't want anyone to get sick. I don't want that responsibility.

Do your own homework. Be absolutely positive, or PASS. Eat just a bite or two when you try a new one for the first time. Save one for proper identification if you do get sick. You never know, you could have an allergic reaction to a mushroom that others don't have a problem with.

That's my disclaimer. I'm out.

Thanks Jeff, I won't even small sample them... Will look up Russula...

Hey, no worry here about responsibility, I'm a big boy...8^)... Thanks again...

Some toxic mushrooms won't kill you, but they will make purge everything in your system for a few days. Always know for sure what you're ingesting.

George - I know first hand from friends.. Been shrooning for morels for many years since a young man, and have ate Pinkies, Chicken of the Woods, Sheepshead, Puffballs, and Chanterelles others have picked... Years ago actually had 2 friends end up in the hospital due to mushroom poisoning after misidentifying...

I think they misidentified one of the main species, either false chickens, or hens, or chanterelles, but not sure wasn't there and been awhile since so don't know exactly what they ate... Anyhow, they didn't SMALL sample first before fixing a bunch and digging in... (think there might have been alcohol involved too...8^))

If I try a new wild mushroom, will try to get all the info I can first that's why I brought it up here knowing some of youenz are shrooners too... From what I've read, ALL fungi contain toxins, its just the edible ones have such low levels doesn't affect humans... I'll ALWAYS SMALL SAMPLE first a new type mushroom...

I just taste tested raw the boletus/porchinis pictured above... No bluing, no bitter taste, so far so good... If I don't update in the next couple days, youenz will know what happened...8^) Surprisingly, the bottom spore (spongy side) had a better texture than the white middle, now wish I hadn't tossed it...

Ok cool, Zbone. You sound like a responsible guy. I just worry about lurkers here who might be too halfhazard about it.

Yeah, weird how some mushrooms are fine to eat, unless you wash them down with an alcoholic beverage.

Jeff, they were sicker than dogs... One was so bad they actually pumped his stomach at the hospital... They said as the saying goes, "If it doesn't kill ya, you wish you were dead"...8^)

Here another species at the same location... I actually found 4 different species all with about a 30' circle there...

These yellow colored ones don't think I ever seen before...

Yeah Jeff, you're right on Russulas... I'm pitching now the couple I picked...

https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-3303

" Russula mushroom (Russula sp.). Many species in Ohio of various colors: green, yellow, orange, purple, red, white, etc. All woodland and mycorrhizal. Some edible and some poisonous. Summer and fall. Brittle in texture, especially the gills."

Here's the last species I found at that location...

I would not eat any of those pictured. And just be aware that some kind of mushroom that is not toxic when you don't drink alcohol with a meal of them IS toxic if you do. Not sure which one though. I am absolutely certain that pinkys are okay but there are some that grow in the woods that resemble them that I'd leave alone. Usually single. Before I knew better I always thought shaggy manes aka inky caps were toxic too. But they are just as tasty as pinkies when young. Jeff that destroying angel is sonething I have never even had the courage to pick with my hands...not touching that thing... ;)

Oh man! Mushroom hunting while small game hunting is one of my favorite excuses to slow down. I almost always come home with food. Alaska has been really great this year. I got some chicken of the woods. saphron milkcaps, several types of boletes (Birch and Aspen Boletes AKA scabbar stalks are what make you sick if you drink with them.) Lots of hedghogs, and even a few Hawks wings. Hey I even got a few spruce grouse out of the deal. I also only go for mushrooms I know well, easy to identify, that have no deadly look alikes.

Hunt safe!

Msturm

Yeah TrapperKayak, I agree, and not gonna even taste test those last three I posted... Thanks

Here is a pic of the forest pinky look-alike. I am not sure of its edibility, but it looks too much like a death angel even if it is pink, for me to take a chance on it. The solitary ones kinda scare me. This one was 'alone'. I do think it belongs to the 'pinky' family but still, NO WAY. Don't like the looks of that stem ring for one thing... :/

I love mushrooms, but other than a couple varieties I don't know which ones are safe to eat. Thought about getting an I.D. book, but even then what if I get it wrong?!?

Just something to keep in mind -

Most mushroom poisoning is caused by gilled mushrooms.

Nearly all mushroom related Fatalities are from eating gilled mushrooms

Well still here, didn't get sick from my boletus/porchinis taste test, so I cooked them up with a couple steaks today....

Yum, can't believe I've been passing by these for years....

BTW, don't make fun of my granddaughter's Dora the Explorer plastic plate...8^)

Who's looking at the plate??? :)

Ran across these today...

They're pretty orange...

That's a jack o'lantern; definite sickener.

Thanks much Kerry, what I needed to know...

I concur.

Gary, get a really good mushroom ID book with real-life color photos, and be very vey careful what you chose to cook and eat. I would have to say that the vast majority of fungi are probably NOT safe to eat or take a chance on anyway. These ones you are finding I would not even consider. I'd stick with the sure things and get enough of them to keep you in them through the fall and winter if you really like them. It must be tempting to experiment and want to taste new ones, but I think I'd utilize a good reference book or two to go along with the 'expertise' you will find on an internet forum. There are some knowledgeable people here, but I'd be very careful because novice mushrooming is like playing a game of Russian Roulette.

Have you seen any of these out there in your travels? The young ones are good. Pheasant backs.

More of them. Also known as Dryad's Saddles.

Oysters that I 'left', because even though they smelled great and I am 99% sure they are safe, its that 1% that gets to me. I was taught that all white gilled mushrooms, esp. ground ones, are not edible. I know now that is not true, but that mindset is ingrained in me and I can't bring myself to put 'em in my mouth. Even if they are tree fungus.

These are good for drying and using for medicinal purposes. I haven't had to employ them yet. There grow on dead white birch trees. I have a couple in my day pack in a baggie in case I get stuck in the wilderness ever need an immune system boost. Yeah, right. LOL!

This was found in the Adirondacks. Would not touch it with a ten foot pole.

Some nice young Dryad's. Left them, this was before I knew they were edible. Jeff taught me they were so since then I take some.

Another freaking Toadstool. No idea what it is, nor do I care to.

Amazingly enough, these are the ones the hippies trip on (at least that is the kind seen on so many hippie stickers on VW vans). It is a Fly Amanita, and I always thought it was deadly, causing liver damage, second only in toxicity to the Death Angel. Maybe not though. I guess it is just another form of recreation to the stoners. Not me, not ever.

Just some more toadstools IMO. Jeff? Ever see these?

Actually, looks like something was eating those white ones. Didn't notice that before. I don't know what these are either, but no matter, I ain't eatin' 'em.

This is the ole beach tree that toppled a few years ago, the first year it happened. This shelf was on it when the tree was standing upright. It since started to 'grow new shelves' oriented the other way. I have pics of its evolution for the next three years. Will post them at some point if I can find them.

Jeff is this chagga? It's on a birch

Just found a whole batch of these badasses growing. Usually single, but this was a group of them. About the size of a silver dollar. Death Angels...Yowza!

I don't usually find them on lawns either. Mostly in the woods.

Rau, probably Chaga.

Trapper, yes I've seen those, but don't know what they are. I'll get the books out when I get in the house. I just got back from gathering a few in my way home from work.

We're getting a nice soaking rain here now. :^)

Here's what I found a few minutes ago, right before the rain.

The Sulfurs are actually brighter and more orange in color in person. They're at their peak of edibility imo... 80% grown, yet very soft from base to edge. They grow and age quickly. In another two days, I probably would have left them. I went straight to the store and got some spaghetti sauce and mozzarella ;^)

The Hens are a couple of babies that I left to grow out... oh, 5 or 6 days ago.

Rau, that looks like it is probably Chaga. The KING of medicinal mushrooms.

Calvin, those Oysters are slightly past their prime, and slightly browning, but they could have been eaten. I found some last week, snow white and prime, some of the nicest I've found, and literally 48 hours later, they were decayed so badly, we'd have walked by them within a couple feet and never seen them. They were almost completely gone. Amazing. Oysters are very tasty, one of the best, and very delicate. A real treat. They grow in the summer too, but then, the bugs LOVE them, and I seldom beat them there. Bugs aside, they're so delicate and quick to grow and die, I never seem to get there in time. The only reason I didn't grab those ones last week was, I figured I'd make a big loop and come back to the same spot, but I ended up coming out to the road about a mile away, on the far side of the truck. Came back 48 hours later.... gone.

Your next pic is Birch bark polypore. Mostly medicinal, used in teas dried and/or ground, but they claim the youngest/softest can be eaten, though I never have... simply because the softest Birch bark polypore I've found is still tougher than any other I've eaten.

The red one looks like a Russula. Some are edible, but I don't mess with them.

The grey/white ones look like perhaps Aborted Entolomas. They grow in clusters like yours, often in 'toadstool' form, but when their 'root system'/Mycelium is infected with the mycelium of the Honey mushroom, they 'abort' and grow as blobs, or odd shaped masses of the same color. The regular and aborted versions can grow in bunches in the same area, within feet or inches of each other, and actually grow 'into' one another. I had some cool pics of them doing so from last summer, but had a brain fart one day and reset my phone back to factory settings and lost all of my pics... hundreds of mushroom and bowhunting pics :^(

The next picture, of the mushrooms with the dark brown speckles all over the cap look to be, perhaps, Scaly Pholiota... quite mature ones. That's the closest I can figure. Maybe give you somewhere to start looking if you're so-inclined.

Found this tonight in the backyard.

Pristine bears head tooth. Those things are cool and relatively rare. Enjoy!

Jeff, I found these today and I'm pretty sure they are Oysters. I pick about 6 types of mushrooms that my Dad taught me to identify but never oysters. What do you think? Thanks, Brad

You guys have been very helpful with mushroom identification, thanks...

Brad, yessir, those are oysters. They don't last long(you can count the hours) so if you want them, you better get them tomorrow. I picked some today. They like dead ash trees. Those rains we got just two days apart got the mushrooms jumping up like crazy.

I found 48 Sheepshead today, plus oysters, sulfurs, puffballs and more.

18 hens around a single oak tree. Best shroomin day I ever had, by FAR.

This guy just hunted this stand in the last day or two. There wasn't a bow rope there the other day. Apparently he doesn't like oysters... so I helped myself ;^)

Look at the size of some of them...

18 hens surrounding a red oak

Thanks for the info Jeff. And nice find today. Sounds like fun. Ill pick the oysters tomorrow. They look very delicate. Can I store them in the fridge for a couple if days like any other mushroom? It will be Monday before I get to clean and eat them.

This tree is within sight of the other. They are big and prime, and I had to leave them behind because two crossbow hunters showed up... so I slinked away.

Just a few yards away, there's 11 around another tree. Crazy day.

Jeff that insane!! I've never seen more than 3 at tree!! I'm having a great year too but nothing like you!! Wow! Found these last night

Jeff, do you have a favorite recipe for the Oysters you care to share?

Brad, yes you can keep them in the fridge for a handful of days in a paper bag.

It works great in a stir fry, added last because it cooks fast.

Or I like to just fry onions, peppers, and garlic in butter, then add the oysters, cut into 1/2 - 3/4" wide strips, then put it on top of a chicken breast, after the chicken's been cooked in olive oil in a skillet.

I don't usually get too fancy.

This morning.

Stinkhorn?

Just got back in the garage. I'm trying to control myself and only took the best I found.

The biggest and freshest Hen I found was full of dirt and red ants up inside. I've seen all kinds of bugs in them, but never saw those stinking red ants make one their home. What a waste. It was a monster... probably 20+ lbs... without the dirt.

It's raining again now.

Going to a different spot tomorrow.

Anybody?

I found a lot of different ones yesterday on a hike up Black Bear Mt. in Inlet, NY. I took them all home on a chip in my phone. A lot of fresh oysters, small and pure white. Probably should have had a baggy in in my pack for them but I still don't trust myself to eat white gilled mushrooms. Found a jack-o-lantern like the one above. May post some more pics if I find time. It is going to be very warm the next couple days. The fungi will be going nuts after this rain.

interesting thread for sure. But Im leaving the eating to the experts.

I'm not stepping foot in the woods again until I get caught up on my mushroom processing. They're everywhere out there, and I can't just not bring them back home with me :^/ Now it's just too much.

Just found my first hen few days ago. Very tasty fried on a skillet with some olive oil, garlic, onion, salt and pepper. Now if I could only locate them like Jeff.

Is this a Hen? I found it on the way out to the corn lot yesterday on my evening hunt. It was in a hemlock stand next to an old stump. Edible? It smelled okay...I left it. It was very tender and fresh looking. I also left the big 'target' deer I saw the day before at the spot in the corn I hoped to see it. It was a big lone doe, and a slight shift of my right leg to get a better shot sent it packing past me through the big hole in the corn. Dangit, talk about spooky deer. On the way out I saw why. Hunter walking along the edge of the woods from his stand, that I found the day before. He has obviously been out there for a couple weeks now, and has them all on extreme edge. She was coming right into the lane, just perfect broadside. Got a tad itchy fingered I guess. It almost came together on my second day out. Maybe next time, maybe tonight in the rain.

Hey TrapperKayak, look up Sheephead, but still doesn't quit look like photos I seen... I think Sheepheads are the same species as the Hen, but different subspecies from what I've read, but don't take my word for it... Hopefully Jeff will chime in to let us know... Whats the underside look like, are they white?

OK, will do. They were whitish - same color as the lightest part of the tops, and looked like pores, not gills I think. I was in more of a hurry to get to my stand to really take a close look. I might go back for them later today. At least another look, but will leave them if they are too far gone.

Sheepshead, Hen of the Woods, Maitake, are all exactly the same thing... Grifola frondosa

I've never found a Sheepshead quite as white as those, usually they're at least blonde/tan. To me, due to the color and shape, it looks like it could be Black Staining Polypore(Meripilus sumstinei), young ones... which is in the same family as Maitake. Black Staining Polypore mushrooms are often mistaken for Hens, can be white like that, especially when young, often darken with age and will stain brown or black if bruised or cut, especially underneath. The staining can happen in a few minutes or up to a half hour or more. They're edible, though not as palatable as Maitake.

I went and cut them during my lunch hour, they don't seem to stain anything at all. They don't have much odor, but what smell they do have does not smell unpleasant. Got a plastic grocery bag full. They are still fresh.

That's a much different color than the previous pic. In this second picture, they look like Maitake.

They look a lot like these.

Jeff you took the guys deer bait. deer love shrooms to ya know it's like white button corns for them.

I'm always afraid to pick the wrong ones also myself.LOL Just what I need another bad trip. LOL

Bad enough I get flashbacks of the mad hater.LOL

Yeah the phone,camera,plays tricks with the lighting.,,pretty sure,they,are miatakes. ,will,try a,small sample,tomorrow. Sorry about,commas.,new phone keyboard not used to it.

TrapperKayak- Let us know how it goes and it you're still around...8^)

This is an oddity? This is a Chicken found growing on a Eucalyptus Tree in Arizona yesterday.Cannot be eaten because of the absorption of the tree.

Well if you do eat it, you can use the aloe vera to rub on the hives you break out in... Just Kiddin', don't eat it. :) I didn't try the miatake yet. Maybe today. Chicken...

We had chicken parm last night with Maitake. I ate too much :^)

Ryman, I've never seen deer eat Maitake mushrooms. One particular white oak where I find them, a groundhog has a hole dug under the roots, and a Maitake often grows right beside the hole. I've seen him standing beside the mushroom as I approached. He's lived there for years and has never taken a single bite. Must be guarding them for me ;^)

I've seen where deer destroyed patches of hundreds of Honey mushrooms though.

I've seen a lot of those polyphores that grow on birch eaten by deer. In fact, there is so much activity and so many dead birch around where I hunt that I sometimes set up and wait for something to come in to feed on them. I have seen a lot of pieces parts of polyphores munched on around here litter the ground in the birch stands.

these were on a log next to the miatakes. Edible? I left them. They look like Hoarfrost.

Lions Mane? Edible? It remains in its home.

Trapper, those are some of my favorites to find and eat. They're cool looking.

Both of those last two are edible, and in fact delicious if harvested young, fresh and snow white. The first is a Comb tooth mushroom(Hericium coralloides), the second is Bear's Head Tooth(Hericium americanum)

Lion's mane, or Bearded tooth mushroom is Hericium erinaceus.

They are all edible.

Good info concerning them on this page.

http://americanmushrooms.com/edibles2.htm

Thanks, Jeff. Based on that, I might go cut them later when I go out hunting. Always up for trying something edible.

That site is very reassuring and informative. Thanks. TK

Hen was too buggy....

Chickens are all over....these were too old and buggy.

Was looking around today... These guys are everywhere around my place... They're old and am sure the are not edible just curious what they are... Thanks

Looks like mushrooms

Here is pic of a couple flipped over...

Here are some more, although the one near the center of the oak down look different...

As said they are everywhere, notice my seat of my little deer hide...

Z, we have a lot of those too. Not sure what they call them. Some sort of shelf fungus, small variety. I did fry up some miatakes for lunch though and ate them a half hour ago, with sweet potato and cauliflower. They were mild but tasty. I don't feel anything weird going on inside me yet...:0 Next time I'll have them with venison steaks.

Around here they call 'em Conks...find 'em on dying or dead popple...artsy types paint the undersides (spore side) and sell 'em in craft-shows and such.

Yep South Farm, I looked up Conks... Thanks...

Hey TrapperKayak - From what I read, although woody, I guess they are edible... I might test taste a young soft one...

Yep South Farm, I looked up Conks... Thanks...

Hey TrapperKayak - From what I read, although woody, I guess they are edible... I might test taste a young soft one...

Yep South Farm, I looked up Conks... Thanks...

Hey TrapperKayak - From what I read, although woody, I guess they are edible... I might test taste a young soft one...

Yep South Farm, I looked up Conks... Thanks...

Hey TrapperKayak - From what I read, although woody, I guess they are edible... I might test taste a young soft one...

Yep South Farm, I looked up Conks... Thanks...

Hey TrapperKayak - From what I read, although woody, I guess they are edible... I might test taste a young soft one...

Z, go for it. Z, go for it. Z, go for it. :)

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