23/10/2023
Hi Everyone
We would like to share a good capture when we went on one of our first mushroom hunts.
This is the Stereum Ostrea, commonly known as false turkey tale or golden curtain crust.
It's Ecology is Saprophytic, basically obtaining food by absorbing dissolved organic material.
It's inedible being considered too tough and thin to be edible.
It's habitat is usually on dead wood of broadleaved trees, found in humid areas such as moist forests or along streams and rivers.
Commonly mistaken as a multicolored Trametes Versicolor. The difference comes in where the Stereum Ostra does not have pore openings on the hymenial surface.
Glad we could share this with you and will post our findings from time to time to bring more interesting facts.
And also to anyone in the mushroom community please feel free to share anything you might know that I did not mention or if we even made a mistake. We are always happy to hear more about what we find as well.
The ChronicMush Team
"Stop and look for mushrooms."