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[–] 38 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

Seems like a pretty standard fungi to me

Perhaps a level for a platform video game

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Never seen this kind before in my neck of the woods.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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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    Make sure to harvest these in seyda neen for the mages guild

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Those fungi are not especially weird.

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    This is so gnomes can double jump up to their tree house.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    reishi, neat!

    I make health tonics with these 😁

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    I've never seen fungi like these.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's actually quite common but its a parasite and will kill the tree eventually

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

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

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

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