brianf Posted July 19, 2015 Report Posted July 19, 2015 Probably a pale chicken of the woods. Maybe a black staining polypore. Pictures taken by a buddy in Weymouth, MA. Several growing in his back yard. I'm reluctant to give him an ID as they're extremely pale in color and I know he had some black staining polypores growing in a different part of his yard last season. They're currently growing in the middle of his back yard and surrounding a cut stump that butts up against his porch. Later in the season he'll have Grifola Umbellata growing alongside his driveway. I ate the mushrooms and sclerotas last year. They're really nice pictures. Feel free to chime in. I doubt he'll eat them. And if he did, he wouldn't die.
eat-bolete Posted July 20, 2015 Report Posted July 20, 2015 I think this is the same kind I just found, hopefully it's a 'chicken'
John Smalldridge Posted July 20, 2015 Report Posted July 20, 2015 Looks like a prime condition laetiporus cincinnatus or white pored chicken of the woods.
brianf Posted July 20, 2015 Author Report Posted July 20, 2015 Yeah. I assumed as much. It's just so pale for a mushroom that gets several hours of soft, filtered sunlight. Up here we're used to big, bright orange chickens. Though, we'll never really know. I'm not driving over an hour for a chicken of the woods. I still have pounds of it from last season in the freezer. I realize in my first post I neglected to mention he said it smelled sour and mealy. Not something I normally attribute to either L.Cinncinatus or L.Sulphureus, but the swamp next to his house is nasty, stagnant spillway where fresh and salt water come together.
1shotwade Posted July 20, 2015 Report Posted July 20, 2015 It has been my understanding that these grew only on trees/downed logs until recently. I read an articular that stated the can also grow on subterranean wood in the middle of open areas.Sounds like what has happened here. I would be cautious of growth in an area of swampy land that is abnormally foul.Any think could leach thru the ground to contaminate it. Wade
John Smalldridge Posted July 20, 2015 Report Posted July 20, 2015 L . cincinnatus regularly grows at the base of living trees and their roots. I have personally seen this several times.
dualsetters Posted July 20, 2015 Report Posted July 20, 2015 I've found 2 L cincinnatus and both were at the base of live trees John
brianf Posted July 20, 2015 Author Report Posted July 20, 2015 The best chickens I have ever found have been growing in the grass near surface roots. It can grow much further away then the tree base as can a lot of polypores. After last year, I just have little interest in this mushroom right now.
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