It is winter but there are still some fungi growing for this #fungifriday by 
It seems when the snow melts it brings out the bird's nest fungi.
There are many types of bird's nest fungi in the family Nidulariaceae. I'm not sure what this orange type is.
The amber jelly roll can also easily be found on broken branches during winter. I often find this stuff frozen solid. It is edible but bland and tasteless, only good in spicy dishes.
As usual the polypores are always growing. Here is some false turkeytail.
Here is the false turkeytail from the side. You can kind of see the smoother looking underside which helps you differentiate it from true turkeytail.
I suspect this might be some other type of turkeytail lookalike. It was way too tiny to be true turkeytail. Many crust fungi look like this.
Now for a different color of false turkeytail. Fortunately these false turkeytail aren't poisonous so if you are looking for the medicinal turkeytail then you don't have to worry about accidentally harvesting a poisonous mushroom.
You will just end up with a mushroom without the medicinal properties.
The quick way to identify false turkeytail is to see how it curls upward like this. True turkeytail is more rough underneath and more wrinkly and less thin like this.
That's all for now, just a few more months until good mushroom sightings again.