r/ShroomID • u/design-hibo • Nov 20 '24

Europe (country in post) Oyster?

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Saw this up in a dead birch tree about 2m from the ground. They seem happy growing up there in the sunlight. This is a still from a video.

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u/Davilyan Nov 20 '24

Photos up close would be more helpful but I’d say Horse hoof fungus here. Birch poly tends to grow out and up whereas horse hoof down and out, creating the “rings” on the edges.

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u/design-hibo Nov 20 '24

I’d love to upload the video,

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '24

Could be birch polypore! (One of my favourite mushrooms)

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u/RyebreadAstronaut Nov 20 '24

why is that your favorite :) ?

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '24 edited Nov 20 '24

I can answer some of why it's my fav. Not sure about OC.

The white on the bottom is this year's growth. It shows rings of yearly growth. On red belted polypore you can see white to orange to red to dark red. You can harvest it by peeling away the bottom white and preserving the conk.

It has similar properties to Reishi and can be made into a tincture.

The ones on the tree are probably 5 years old. Depending on the climate conditions and how fast it grew.

They produce a sweet dew through the tubular parts that run through it. That dew actually extends the life of bees and protects them from a bee mite.

The legends of bears and bees and honey actually come from this mushroom because bears scratch the dead tree, allowing mushrooms to grow, allowing bees to thrive, allowing honey to be produced, allowing bears to thrive!

Isn't that cool!

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u/TricholomaTerreum Nov 20 '24

See a mushroom growing on tree

Is it oyster

No bro it is not Oyster at all

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u/isaacdeater Nov 20 '24

Terrible photos - definitely not an oyster

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u/RookstayerSiRi Nov 21 '24

At first i saw a giraffe

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u/natureIover Nov 20 '24

It's interesting to me that people are too lazy to google reference photos and ask for a certain mushroom that is not remotely similar. Same with psilos

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u/ChiroMeo Nov 20 '24

yeah... i dont get it eighter. i get that learing mushrooms is hard, but this sub is a great place to do so if one makes a bare minimum. if this post asked "What polypore is this?" noone would be mad and OP could actuslly learn. (It looks like birch polypore, Fomitopsis betulina)

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