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Ganoderma lucidum
This is very lime green mushroom with a very short stalk and next to a decomposing tree trunk. It is quite hard to the touch and firm. It looks old. the one next to it had turned gray and looked like if I touched it, it would fall apart. This is a polypore fungi. Usually grows near base of tree. Body is tough. Wood decaying fungi.
This mushroom was spotted in a forest on sandy wet marsh soil at the Buccaneer State Park in Waveland, Mississippi.
I have added a picture of the underside of this mushroom. It looks like it is in beginning stages of decay and it does seem to have been covered in a green mold or moss.
Spotted on Jan 17, 2014
Submitted on Jan 17, 2014
7 Comments
Thank you RandyL. I have checked the guide to mushrooms expert website and the ganoderma does look like this one even though mine is green. It more resembles ganoderma lucidum so put it in that category. Hope I'm right.
Ganoderma is the only thing I could see it being.
You are right Britney. We have to get a small mirror in order to see the underside of mushrooms. We did not have one with us and it was too close to the ground to get our camera under it. Thanks.
Please be sure to include close up photos of the underside, the porous surface.
That will help in identification tremendously.
Britney
Antonio and Britney. We looked at this mushroom very carefully. It was quite thick and very hard to the touch. Growing out of the ground and not the decaying tree trunk with an extremely short stalk so could not move it to see under it. I was quite lime green in color (that is what caught my attention when walking by it). It may have been moss all over it but not sure. We may go back to the trail tomorrow to check it out again. I'm almost sure we can find it again (hopefully). the picture I took was not enhanced in any way. That is the color of this mushroom.
Nice finding Mary,it look like a polypore species,almost impossible to say wich one,the green collour it must be some kind of moss growing on
Was this polypore actually lime green or was it growing something green on it? It looks to me like a Ganoderma species but I don't know of any lime green ones.
Britney