A Mushroom Hunt in January On a Cold Rainy Day

Ganoderma applamatum group? Grows on a maple. OR Fomitopsis pinicola? Red-belted conk, but it does not grow on a conifer. Must be Ganoderma applamatum group


Mike, Genny, and Reta on the Payette Greenbelt beside the Snake River and Payette Fishing pond

Talk about wanting to get out of the house in the middle of thne winter. Who would go on a mushroom hunt on a cold January day--a rainy, cold January day. Could there possibly be mushrooms to be found? We were hoping to find some oyster mushrooms, but none were to be found. Amazingly, we did find a few mushrooms. And, we found a beaver's paw. That's right, a beaver's paw. We also found a dead white goat and a white chicken someone had dumbed out along a parking area set aside for sportsman to access the Payette River. I am thinking that the chicken and goat were not dumped by sportsman.

We found three types of mushrooms, but I did not get good pictures of the other two.