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Mushrooms: Ganoderma tsugae
Fall Foliage: Berkshires, 2004
Hayes Pond Road
Joe,
Thanks for your e-mail and the pic. Your mushroom looks like
Ganoderma lucidum or Ganoderma tsugae to me:
See it at: http://www.bluewillowpages.com/mushroomexpert/ganoderma_lucidum.html
See it at: http://www.bluewillowpages.com/mushroomexpert/ganoderma_tsugae.html
. . . The principal difference between these species is that the former grows on hardwoods and the latter grows on conifers. I see both maple leaves and white pine needles in your photo--but the stump looks "coniferish" to me (mostly based on the way that one little branch sticks out), so G. tsugae is my guess.
I doubt you would want to eat it after picking it and seeing that you'd need mastodon teeth to chew it.
Best wishes,
Michael Kuo
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