Found colonizing a root wad of a large tree. I would love an ID.
Found in Southwest North Carolina. They were all over the exposed root of a fallen tree, was really impressive to see.
If anyone is familiar I’d appreciate an ID for my own curiosity.
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I don't know your area, but in my area the underside of the caps (specifically gill color and how they attach to the stipe) can be very helpful, even sometimes necessary to get a good ID. The type of wood being eaten is also sometimes relevant. Any idea what kind of wood it was?
Below is my result putting the photo into iNaturalist's robot. I just put the date as today and the location as "North Carolina". It's not my photo so i didnt turn it into an observation.
I would highly encourage you to actually upload your photo as an observation to iNaturalist with accurate info so that local mycologists can have a look and chime in. (While the robot is good, the experts on iNat are even better) iNaturalist is a nonprofit that shares the data they gather with scientists and universities for free
Hypholoma laeteritum seems very reasonable to me. Central Europe here.
I can't help with an ID but my mom used to live in Murphy and I appreciate this little memory of those times ❤️ Lots of chicken of the woods!
I was one of the officer on the Murphy NCANG unit back in the 90s after the Gulf War. Good people.
They are good people! But they also hid Eric Rudolph so they are complicated people. Lots of neat things there. Thanks for your service!
Then you will like this story. In 99 the FBI sent a few guys and they had a meeting with the 210th officers, of which I was one, about using the unit for searching the woods for him. One of the lieutenants was from Murphy and he looked strait at the FBI guys and told them they were wasting their time because half the unit was related to Rudolf and the other half was sympathetic. The FBI guys thanked us for our time and left. I got out a few month after that. It was just too far for me to drive and being a NG officer was too time consuming for my civilian job. You are correct they are a complicated people.
Wow, that sounds about right 🤷♂️ thanks for sharing!
Hey do me a favor and post this in https://lemmy.world/c/wnc I am the mod over there and trying to get it going. If you are from WMC please join. If you are not then join anyway.