My neighbor's wooded area across the street from her house held multiple examples of beautiful shelf fungi. This one was growing on a dying tree trunk.
@Abjab I had breakthrough Covid after my 2 shots of Moderna and the worst symptom was the fatigue, which I still have. It does seem to be lessening a little, thanks, but I am so far behind. Frustrating!
Out comes my book again. I can't really identify this bracket fungus, yes it's a Turkey tail but there are so many, I was looking to see about its medicinal properties, but no luck. Hope you will be feeling better soon. Did you actually contact covid or is the lack of motivation that so many of us are suffering from? Anyway , another very interesting puzzle Wendy, thank you.
@schutkleur--I have found so many of these bracket fungi that are many different colors, although not many as pretty as this. Are they all considered turkey tails? (My husband has bought some of them for medicinal purposes--hoping to get me past this post-breakthrough-covid fatigue, which has slowed me down to an almost complete halt. I hate having no strength and energy!)
This turkey tail indeed is beautiful Wendy, and it does come in lots of colors. This mushroom is a powerful immune system enhancer with years of medicinal use behind it. But I would never pick them in the wild to use. But that goes for any mushroom I find, even if I am very certain what it is. The mushrooms I eat are all bought at the green grocer :))
@Ms_Maddy I think this may well be a turkey tail. Shelf mushrooms "grow laterally from a tree or another object, usually without an obvious stem." (definition from Mushrooms of the Northeast, by Marrone and Sturgeon.) Also known as bracket mushrooms. My photo looks very like the turkey tail illustrations.
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