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Large, circular, cream colored fungus with caramel spots - about 8" - 10" diameter. Dime in one photo to illustrate size
Hardwood forest
Spotted on May 7, 2013
Submitted on May 8, 2013
6 Comments
good luck! I tried dryads saddle mushroom the other day and I don't really like the taste so much. It taste like watermelon rind too but much stronger...
Jared - sorry to be so dim, but I can't find your home page or how to join. I searched projectnoah but don't see your project...
I'll go back tomorrow and see if I can detect a watermelon rind smell.
It should smell similar to watermelon rind. It does have an unusual morphology gully.
Does look similar to Polyporus squamosus (Dryad's Saddle), but not completely typical. Perhaps it's just displaying an unusual morphology, or it else it could be something closely related.
This is Dryad's saddle! Nice find. Can you join my Mushrooms of Appalachia project and post this spotting to that? You can find the mission on my home page.