Northern Ontario, Canada

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    Seems like a pretty standard fungi to me

    Perhaps a level for a platform video game

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        10 months ago

        Perhaps they’re less common round by you, but over in the UK you see polypores like this all through autumn if you ramble about in wooded areas

        “Chicken of the woods” is a somewhat common one that is pretty tasty (though that’s not what this one is)

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    10 months ago

    Out here on the west coast, I’ve seen bracket fungus as large as a few feet across. This one on southern Vancouver Island is about 2 feet.

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    10 months ago

    Those fungi are not especially weird.

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        • Nangijala@feddit.dkBannedBanned from community
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          Ooohhh, that makes sense because we have a lot of these in my local forest and most trees that have them are either dead or dying. For the longest time we thought they only grew on dead trees until we saw some on a few living trees. Your explanation has cleared up some things for us! Thanks :D

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          Or the tree is already dead. Seen similar funghi on trees that were dead, but still standing.

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      10 months ago

      Cool! Thanks. I was thinking…they kinda look like turkey tail, but the color spectrum is lacking…what other shelf mushrooms (conks) are there?

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        definitely not turkey tail

        they look a lot like reishi to me, tbh - definitely some kind of Ganoderma spp. but probably not the artist conk, and unless it’s hemlock I doubt it’s G. tsugae, and since G. lucidum is only in Asia it’s not that. There are like 16 different reishi species native to North America, so it’s one of those.

        If the tree is a conifer, it’s possible it could be a reishi look-alike, the species complex Fomitopsis pinicola, but it doesn’t look like a conifer to me, so I still think it’s a reishi.

        There are many, many shelf fungi, but not all of them are reishi look-alikes so I think this is probably just reishi, tbh.

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    10 months ago

    Some of these you can eat and others make great firestarters. That’s all I remember about them

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    10 months ago

    I’ve played enough peak to know these are essential when trying to make a jump that looks like you should make, but probably won’t.

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    10 months ago

    I feel like I’ve played half a dozen platformer games with mushrooms placed exactly like this.