Nphage

Great. Thanks for the feedback.

This is my first year finding Grifola frondosa and this past week I found what I believe are two of them, but they look quite different. One is darker, more densely packed, and has much more pronounced pores. The other is much more spread out and the pores are not visible. Are these really both Grifolas? Both were found in southeastern Wisconsin. The darker one near a live burr oak and the lighter one near a dead tree that I'm pretty sure was oak. Anyone else see this much variation or is one of them not actually a Grifola? Is the one with pronounced pores just older?

Thanks for your suggestions. It was probably about 8 inches across at the longest point and maybe 3 inches tall. Definitely an unusual mushroom. Maybe next year I'll get to see it at a different stage.

Here are some more pictures. Apparently some other animal found it appealing and tore into it. I got some pictures of the underside but they don't look much different from the top. It doesn't look like it stains black since the torn up parts are still white. The torn parts look almost like shredded chicken it strong cheese.

Ok. I'll try to take a look at it again. My guess was that it was some kind of polypore based on the way it looked inside. The one piece I cut off didn't really have an underside. It just continued into the ground. Maybe I can find a piece that does have an underside.

Any ideas what this might be? This is in central Wisconsin. It looks like it may be growing out of a dead maple tree. It's just a solid mass with no stems. It looks like it may have had a smooth surface that has now split. I cut a piece open and it's kind of fibrous throughout.

It's a shame I'm going home tomorrow and none of these will probably be big enough to harvest by then. I counted about 50 clusters coming on that one stump. At least I got some off the two logs left from the tree.

Yeah I've read they are all over the Midwest now. I actually first saw these a year ago and had no idea what they were at the time. Fortunately not all of the pieces of that log ended up in the camp fire. The bright yellow color is accurate, but it does vary some from cluster to cluster with the older ones looking more pale.

I was hoping to get some help identifying what I'm fairly certain are Pleurotus citrinopileatus or golden oysters. I've consulted multiple guides online and preformed a spore print and everything points to this being what they are. Below are some pictures and the spore print was a light pink. These were found in a deciduous woods in Wisconsin. While I'm really comfortable identifying plants I'm still working on getting used to mushrooms. Thanks.