Monday, May 12, 2008

Gratuitous Mushroom Picture



Anyone want to take an identification guess on this one?

Maryland, spring, on standing dead wood, the size of my palm. Not a pleurotus. I assume this is gilled, though I did not really look. These were a bit blown, and were holding water in their caps.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dryad's Saddle??
AKA Pheasant's Back Polypore

PBurns said...

Bingo -- I think you are right.

I've GOT to get a new fungus book. I still have the one I got in college (yes, I took a course), but clearly Orson K. Miller, Jr.'s "Mushrooms of North America" is not going to do it anymore.

Thanks! Excellent work.

Patrick