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I think that your moss comment is well made. I have never seen a pic of a black trumpet in situ where there was no moss present. Black trumpets are still missing from my life list. I would really like to find some this year, but every place I've looked has no moss. I'm beginning to think that moss is key.

 

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Do you normally find them on higher ground or lower? I don't have a whole lot of white oak in my area, mostly red and pin. There is a place with red oaks growing along a creek, and I find hen of the woods growing on them. There is an absolutely ginormous white oak, growing a little further distance from the creek. But, no moss! I always look, but I never find anything around it.

 

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Was playing golf the other day, and right beside one tee was a bunch of raspberry bushes that had tiny, immature berries on it due to the lack of rain around here! I always like a free snack on the course, but, not that day!

 

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Yes you did. The golf tournament up there was pretty much rained out on Saturday. That cold front moved through here (NE Ohio) in the wee hours of the morning. Finally some actual rain!

 

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Color is all wrong for a chicken of the woods. Hard for me to tell if it's a polypore or toothed fungus. I think it could be northern tooth. Went back and re-read your post. If the underside is like hedgehog, then it is a toothed fungus, and I'm confident that it is northern tooth. Not poisonous, but considered inedible due to bitter flavor and tough texture.

 

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Not arguing about it, but i have seen chicken of the woods very cream color.

True, there is a species of chicken that is very pale in color. However, it is a polypore and not a toothed fungus. I've found 2 species of chicken here in NE Ohio, Laetiporous sulfureus, and Laetiporous cincinnatus. I don't know if the cream colored version grows here. I've also found northern tooth several times.

 

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Or, could be an immature Amanita emerging with a full veil! How can you tell? Cut it in half from botton to top! See if there is a little, tiny muhroom hiding inside!

 

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I've mentioned it other places in this forum, but I don't think I've done it here. There a YouTube channel called Learn Your Land. It's all about gatherin wild food. They cover all the popular, and some not so popular, mushrooms. They tell you how to make positive ID's, what the spore print color is, how to do them, and even give some reciped ideas. Check them out, they are a good resource.

 

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No. He's the guy with the small round ear rings. I'll post a link.

 

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Neat. I don't know if they are in the cards for me this year. Not a sign of them last time I looked. Will go again, sometimes you need a little cold air to get them going. Supposed to be 38* tonight! Looked at my meadow mushroom spot yesterday morning, and nothing happening there either. Been kinda dry and that will continue for at least 3 more days.

 

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At first I thought honey mushrooms, they grown in clumps like that. But then I thought no. Those don't really look like honeys, at least not the ones I find around here, NE Ohio. Not really sure what they are.