You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed the post!

Haven't got any on me yet this year, but it's only a matter of time haha

@sketch.and.jam Here is a source I found with info on this species and links to cooking methods:

No, not to eat them; they are far too woody to eat. I cut one in half to show how there are new pore surfaces being added beneath the previous layer of growth since there is a look-alike species (Ganoderma

You're more brave than me wanting to eat them haha

They may have been. They aren't far off the trail and the other forager I ran into said that he had been returning to that log for the last three years.

This was really helpful. I wasn't aware of how similar looking all of these species were until reading that guide. After looking back at my pictures, they do look more like the images of G. korfii or G.

Thanks for sharing! Not sure I'm brave enough to try cooking them myself, but interesting info nonetheless.

Hopefully soon. I'll keep searching and post here if I find any.

Very interesting, thank you for sharing! I hadn't heard much for how to prepare them to make them nontoxic. Do you know what the boiling does to them? Breaks down the toxins I assume?

You're welcome, happy to share!

Thank you for the kind words @joanstewart

Thank you for another week by the fire @bambuka. My recent morel hunts have left we with no morels, but plenty of pictures of other fungi. Here are 3 large pieces of Ganoderma lobatum I found growing from

Thank you! It is a good mushroom hunting spot. I keep checking every few days for morels, but I haven't found any quite yet.

You're welcome, just wanted to give you a heads up in case you were not aware. Thanks for the update!

@donald.porter Just tried checking to see if I could view the post on lernblogs.com and nothing is showing up from my view:

I can't find anything with as dark of an underside as what you show here either. Hard to say what they are. Maybe it's discoloration from decay?

Here's my entry the contest: Wetland Wonders

Thanks for mentioning this. I've been looking for campsites in the area. I'm hoping to make a trip there sometime soon.

I agree. Little Brown Mushrooms (LBMs) are notoriously difficult to ID in the field. For the second mushroom, it looks to me like some species of Chanterelle, though that would be a pretty early fruiting