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Timberdoodler
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Registered: 07/20/06
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Loc: Pennsylvania
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Polypore Galore
#5952663 - 08/11/06 12:02 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Things are far too dry for my liking here in Pennsylvania. Most of the lovely mushrooms have shrivelled up to nothing, and my hunts overall can be summed up with one photo (worth a thousand words):

It's a shame...all my beloved shrooming spots are dried up, and even the lovely chanterelles along my hiking path are dissipating into nothingness. Each hunt reveals almost nothing, and the few mushrooms I find are infested with insects and smell like a dead carcass.
That said, I've been finding various polypore and crust-like mushrooms all around the forest. From my rather amaturish point of view they don't seem to suffer nearly as much from the lack of rain. My guess is that a decaying log, stump, or tree holds moisture much better than soil.
In any case, my dad and I were driving at a relatively high speed when I noticed a blaze of orange wizz by the window. There, shaded under the forest canopy was a log full of orange mushrooms. Granted, he was driving way too fast for an ID, and was in a hurry to get home so for days it bugged me. (I don't have a car at the moment.)
Today I made him take me back. Here's what I found!

Sulphur Shelf has quickly become one of my favorite mushrooms to find, mainly because they are absolutely BEAUTIFUL, and make for some nice pictures. This is actually the first specimen of "chicken mushroom" that I've had the chance to photograph! I've never eaten one though, despite their delicious scent!
I was in a rush, so the photos aren't as good as I'd hoped. I noticed a couple small, bizarre bugs with tails that tilted upward toward the sky intermediately, as if to display or something.



These sulphurs had such a strong scent, I loved it! Unfortunately I can't seem to ID the tree they're on, though my "safe assumption" is that it's a conifer. And while nobody has really confirmed or denied the conifer + sulphur shelf = poison factoid on here, my balls aren't nearly big enough to take the chance.
I plucked one small specimen, and decided to leave the rest to grow for, if not the dinner table, then maybe some more cool photos later. I noticed that the pores were yellow (allegedly less tasty than those with white pores).

Later today I went back behind my yard into that woodlot which yielded little more than similar polypores, and such. I've been finding crust/parchment and polypore mushrooms more than ever the past few days.
Here are a few photographs, though I have no ID. All specimens were too dry for a spore print, and there were some I don't even know if a spore print was possible on the best of conditions!
Enjoy.











All in all, not a bad day. Afterall, polypores need lovin' too ya know.
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xmush
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I so often ignore our friends the polypore, but they are worthy of our attention as you say. They can be stunningly beautiful.
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ToxicMan
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Nice stuff.
Tom Volk is actually more interested in these guys than the regular mushrooms. And when it dries out (it's been very dry here for a few years now) they still do OK.
Happy mushrooming!
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eris
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Nice picture collection
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DarkTranquillity
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Re: Polypore Galore [Re: eris]
#5955202 - 08/11/06 10:31 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Pennsylvania sure is damn dry. I wish it would rain here. Me and my cousin went out today while we were driving around his and my property and decided to go look for some mushrooms. We found nothing but dried ones. The only notable finds being Chanterelles. It was fun anyways.
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Timberdoodler
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Registered: 07/20/06
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Amen.
Way too dry here for good shrooming, but I made due. I did manage to stumble across a shed deer antler while scanning one of the fencelines yesterday! It's the second deer antler I've found this year while looking for mushrooms.
Pretty cool stuff, but I'm hoping for a few days of good rain soon.
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CureCat
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Registered: 04/19/06
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Woah!! First time I have seen a green polypore!!!
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Amatoxin
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Re: Polypore Galore [Re: CureCat]
#5955803 - 08/12/06 06:40 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
CureCat said: Woah!! First time I have seen a green polypore!!!
It's epiphytic green algae 
epi- upon phyto- a plant tic- bloodsucker
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CureCat
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Re: Polypore Galore [Re: Amatoxin]
#5956416 - 08/12/06 12:49 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's what I thought at first, seeing as the green is growing from the log itself, however this image led me to think otherwise:
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Timberdoodler
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As it turns out, I managed to get out yesterday and got some more interesting polypore shots. Not long after nightfall we got some much needed rain, so hopefully there will be more of a variety of mushrooms in upcoming hunts.
I'm not sure what this first dry polypore was. In some ways it reminded me of chicken of the woods, but it was way too pale, dry, and colorless.
Above view:


Side view:

Porous underside of one of the specimens:

On that note, here are some other photos from yesterdays pre-rain hunt:








Also...no idea what this was, but it was like a chalky foam that I found at the base of a chewed up, rotting log:

Enjoy the pics, and happy shrooming!
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