Name that Fungi !

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Peter Remling
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Name that Fungi !

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No I'm not showing you my feet ! :)

This is a picture of a fungi growing in my backyard. It's about a foot across. Anyone know exactly what it is.
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It looks like a Mortimer to me...yeah I would name him Mortimer. :wink:
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ill try to dig my mushroom book out of my gear and see if i can find it.
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A belated reply, but it ~may~ be dryad's saddle (looks like it to me but I wouldn't ID 100% from a picture):
` http://www.mushroomexpert.com/polyporus_squamosus.html
` http://mushroom-collecting.com/mushroomdryad.html
` http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Mushro ... addle.html
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Thank you Herbcraft, it looks very much like the pictures attached to the article and I'm in the Northeast.
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