I found these in Long Island, New York. They had no apparent smell and seemed to be semi-aquatic relatives of another species of fungus that grew mainly on one tree in the same forest I found them this winter, growing on this one piece of wood. could someone identify both species?
#3459 look like old Turkey Tails (Trametes), #3245 hard to tell, really old/degraded somethings :-). There are a few Cerrena and Stereum species which look like Trametes in my region, so a shot of the pore/underside surface might help. But it is a bit hard to tell with older specimens. cheers, frog
I was caught in a bush of thorns and muddy water when I got photos of #3245, so I didn't really think of photographing the underside. I'll say one thing though, I think that they had gills, not pores. Here's a photo of the area where I found them if it helps: And just for kicks I'll put in a second picture of the same place during summer, july: the ponds were either soaked up by plants or they evaporated. Either way I walked on the area where the pond was and stayed dry.
Hmmm ... gills eh... So maybe something pleurotoid like Lenzites, Crepidotus, Panellus, Gloeophyllum ... ? Looks like a great place to be - to be totally out there! :-) frog
Thanks frog, I think that #3459 are a bunch of old Gloeophyllum sepiarium, or maybe a hybrid of Gloeophyllum sepiarium and something else, maybe turkey tails. Gloeophyllum sepiarium:
