Help Identifying a Mushroom

Tree Spud

5 year old buck +
Can anyone provide an ID on this one?


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Pheasantback. I've never ate one though.
 
Looks like a pheasant back to me also. They grow on wood, it shouldn't be growing out of the ground. Maybe it's on a root. Phesants back are edible, but they are not a favorite of mine.
 
I cut them in small pieces once and fried them with smoked paprika and salt. They tasted a lot like bacon bits, they weren't to bad. When I tried them in just butter they were not good although some people like them they are far from morels or chanterelles.
 
I normally see them growing directly on dead elms. The larger the pores on the bottom, the more mature the shroom and supposedly the worse tasting.

I’ve tried fresh ones and older ones and they all suck. Good to be able to identify in a life or death situation, but I’ll look at them and maybe take a picture and keep walking, and stop at the gas station on the way home and get some peanuts and beef jerky instead of wasting time cooking what tastes like fried rubber.
 
Looks like a pheasant back to me also. They grow on wood, it shouldn't be growing out of the ground. Maybe it's on a root. Phesants back are edible, but they are not a favorite of mine.

It was growing under a red cedar tree and near a dead white birch stump.
 
I normally see them growing directly on dead elms. The larger the pores on the bottom, the more mature the shroom and supposedly the worse tasting.

I’ve tried fresh ones and older ones and they all suck. Good to be able to identify in a life or death situation, but I’ll look at them and maybe take a picture and keep walking, and stop at the gas station on the way home and get some peanuts and beef jerky instead of wasting time cooking what tastes like fried rubber.

Outside of morrells, I get my mushrooms at the store ... what I have read though is that the small new growth ones are better tasting.
 
Probably growing on an underground root grom the dead birch. Dig down and see?

I never managed to like pheasant backs. Some people recommend drying them. Drying changes the flavor of most mushrooms. I just haven't had the chance yet.
 
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