Interesting find! Looks more like a Phellinus species rather than Fomes fomentarius to my eye. Maybe willow bracket? (Willow bracket - Phellinus igniarus:

They have a pretty distinct call. Here is a link to a good video off them singing:

Beautiful photos. The second is my favorite of the group 👍

Nice find! I agree with @sketch.and.jam that it looks like some relative of reishi mushroom (Ganoderma tsugae), but true reishi usually only grows on Eastern Hemlock trees (Tsuga canadensis). It may be

I prefer to hunt for my mushrooms in and around the of wetlands of Manistee National Forest in Michigan, USA. The variety of old and new-growth trees and associated ecosystems they help to produce make

Here is my entry: I got this shot of a red-winged blackbird ruffling his wings in the wind while visiting a local nature preserve earlier this week. While this image is my entry for this round, I also

Thank you!

Nope, not yet. Just got back from another hunt. Didn't find any morels but got plenty of pictures of some other fungi and some birds, so I didn't leave empty-handed.

There are a few other common turkeytail look-alikes you will probably come across in Illinois as well. Stereum ostrea, whose common English name is "False turkeytail," is fairly common in the

For the ones with the magenta hue on the underside, they could be either Trichaptum abietinum ( or Trichaptum biforme ( They are practically identical looking species, but you can tell them apart based

My biggest mushroom lately was a large artist's conk (Ganoderma applanatum) that I found at the base of a tree in a wetland. Based on the number of annual growth zones that I can see of it, it seems like

Thank you for the updates!

These veiled polypores were growing on red pine. As far as I am aware, they almost exclusively grow on dead/dying conifers (source: The hatchet is made by Fiskars ( Looks like they are sold out online,

I got lucky! There were two on the same tree, and I snapped those pictures just as the first one flew off.

Thank you very much @maxgou!

Not yet, but it's supposed to by tomorrow.

The one you have listed as a red-belted polypore looks a lot like the large polypores I've been finding lately. After a lot of searching on the internet (and bugging a few experts on iNaturalist and

Is there a downside to selling on both in your opinion? I get the idea that the more a piece is minted the less valuable it may be, but since Hive and ETH are different networks are you not just hedging

You could also try using NFT Showroom here on the Hive blockchain. You still need to be whitelisted as an artist to begin posting your artwork, but it is a smaller community where she may get relatively

My mistake. I posted this under the context that it was my first notable find this Spring rather than it being a fungi that first fruits in Spring.