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I found this growing very close to the yellow gilled mushrooms under white pines where firewood had been processed a few years ago. The cap looks like sandpaper, almost fuzzy. Pluteus came to mind, but the spores look white.

Found growing under eastern white pines in a place where firewood has been stored and processed, but not fora year or so. I thought they were suillus at first glance, but saw the gills.

A North Spore info booklet says no, but some websites suggest oak and beech specifically as favourites of oysters, so which is it?

Thanks. I didn't mean the title as the name, but a field guide I have names many mushrooms based on their look rather than the common name, like what I did. It's really unimaginative. The fact that it seems to be grouped with the polypore threw me off. According to Wikipedia I should have harvested some with the true turkey tails I harvested.

I can't find anything like it so far, but I'm sure it's common. I think it's growing on red oak.

Is this an old moldy chicken of the woods? I've never seen any in person, hopefully I can check back next year. I'm not sure what kind of wood it is on, but red oak can't be ruled out.

I only found it on hackberry in the area.

Looks like it is growing on elm or white oak. Tiny pores, I'm not sure if worms have been eating on it, but I see one at the bottom.

Seems inefficient to convert a dense heavy hickory log into such little fruiting body mass. They appear to have to pores.

Found them on a fallen white oak while walking through the woods. They were kinda dry like freeze dried, so I think I found them late. What do you think it is?

I was too late on today's hunt: missed some possible oysters, reishi and others.

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Smells kind of like the store bought white button mushrooms. Spore print is what I expected based on the gill color in the pictures: pinkish or brownish. It is a skin color, the rubber band is for color comparison.

Growing on 2-3 years old eastern white pine stump grindings, the same stuff reddening lepiota has been fruiting on this year. 50's at night, mid 70's during the day, and I have been watering near there occasionally. Stalk and everything seems somewhat dense and quite full of water. Very little smell. Cap is slimy if wet, but I found these on the dry or slightly sticky side. I hope they are edible, they certainly look good, but considering how they grow on pine, maybe they aren't.

I just keep the oven on warm (~150degF), and try to ventilate it some so it isn't too hot. I could have set them in a window. Maybe a drop of oil from something got on the burner.

One that I harvested was mostly white with just a little gold, the shade may have done that. But it seems to be very low density and smells like french fries when I was drying them. I hadn't baked fries recently, so it's hard to say if the oven gave them that smell or if it came naturally. This one was on the drier side when I harvested it. But still ended up not as dense and tough even after drying as the very moist and fresh picked ones. I wonder if it is no good for medicinal use? Ever had one smell like fries?

I will have a bunch of eastern white pine chips and stump grindings soon, and I don't want to grow more stink horns and lepiotas if I can help it. Italian oyster and Nameko are 2 readily available options I know of. Sparassis crispa and Neolentinus lepideus might also work. Any others including wild found mushrooms that would be good to try to grow on EWP? I wonder if there are any morels that like pine? If I don't forget, I might light some fires near these pine stumps to see what mushrooms naturally pop up from that. In the past a burn pile near a tulip poplar triggered some puffballs, maybe deer truffles or something to appear in abundance, but that was before I took a liking to learning about fungus. If anyone has some good edible mushrooms that grow on eastern white pine wood, even mycorrhizal mushrooms since I still have a few pines around, I would like some spores. I already have suillus appear occasionally, but they aren't that great. Right now I'm searching the mushroom expert website.

White spore print

I found these growing near my patch of Lepiota Americana, but they are much paler, don't bruise red or yellow quickly, have a grainy look to the caps, and a thin stem all the way down, but otherwise resemble Americana. Growing on white pine chips. I think the cap only gets about 2" wide, but I should find out soon enough.

The little one seems to have just grown out of the dirt as the core of the base is mostly dirt. Maybe that's why it only grew that big after all this time. I put a cylinder around this pair to help it grow upward and stay out of the dirt. Also to help maintain humidity since the weather has changed. It turned out well. Now I just need to figure out how best to use them. Info on double extraction doesn't seem as easy to come by.

I can't find much info on Lepiota cortinarius Having felt very confident with the identification, and other's experience that it is edible, I've tried cooking small amounts over the past few weeks. They're not bad, but not all that good either. No noticeable flavor unless eaten by itself. Tastes like store bought mushrooms, except just a little on the sour side, but not an unpleasant sour.

This pair really grew fast compared to the rest. No before picture.

I didn't know there were so many similar to oyster looking mushrooms, thanks. As a tree cutter, I get bothered by the common use of hardwood for deciduous, and softwood for conifers. As far a I know, douglass fir is a hardwood, and many poplars are as soft as pines and cedars. Even soft maple is almost like pine compared to hard maple which is more like Hickory. But, even coastal loggers from decades past seem to call all deciduous hardwoods. I have a feeling it was started by the redwood and pine loggers.

Do you think if I smashed some of the smaller ones between rounds of maple and watered it, I could get them growing on a totem?

I found these white puffs growing where a red maple used to be. The stump had been ground a few years ago. I almost dismissed them until I noticed a familiar color at the base of one, then found a big pair lifting up a brick.