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Was walking through the woods today and saw these mushrooms growing on a fallen tree. I thought they looked very pretty.

Never tried to ID a mushroom outside a grocery store before, but it looks like turkey tail.

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[โ€“] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All conks are mushrooms.

A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source.

[โ€“] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you for clarifying. That was my takeaway from reading the polypores Wikipedia article.

Conks are all mushrooms, but not all mushrooms are conks.