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Spotting

Description:

Redish and banded mushrooms caps, green in some areas, lack stems, extremely numerous

Habitat:

Growing from a fallen tree

1 Species ID Suggestions

Doren B
Doren B 3 years ago
False Turkey-tail fungus
Stereum ostrea Stereum ostrea - Wikipedia


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1 Comment

Hinshu
Hinshu 3 years ago

Am now pretty sure that these are called False Turkey Tail. They aren’t necessarily edible (have only been told so from the reasoning that their texture is bad, nothing regarding if they are poisonous etc.), but have been proven to be antibacterial and anti-fungal, primarily the latter.

Hinshu
Spotted by
Hinshu

Louisiana, USA

Spotted on Jun 9, 2020
Submitted on Jun 9, 2020

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