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Reluctance with Polypore ID


brianf

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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.

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I think this is the same kind I just found, hopefully it's a 'chicken' :)

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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.

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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

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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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