ID?: Smelly Fungus.

[Big Mike]

I found this smelly fungus growing on a dead tree today.







It was full of small flies and smelled like rotten fish.


Any ideas on what it is?


Should I try to feed it to Tony? :barf:




Big Mike

"Scaring the Tree Huggers."

Forest & Stream

 

[Joezilla]

It looks like an oyster mushroom

http://www.treknature.com/gallery/photo190857.htm

here is some more information

 

[Big Mike]

It looks like an oyster mushroom

Yeah Joe, that’s what I was thinking…

…It even smelled like an oyster bed at low tide. :barf:


Now the questions is:

Do I have the balls to bring one home and try it?






Big Mike

"Scaring the Tree Huggers."

Forest & Stream

 

[kvaughn]

It looks like it might be a "leetl" past the prime picking stage.----KV

 

[hollowdweller]

I'm not sure

maybe oyster but not like the oysters we have around here

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/pleurotus_ostreatus.html

 

[OldPhysics]

Yeah Joe, that’s what I was thinking…

…It even smelled like an oyster bed at low tide. :barf:


Now the questions is:

Do I have the balls to bring one home and try it?






Big Mike

"Scaring the Tree Huggers."

Forest & Stream

Well, that IS what my grandad taught me an oyster mushroom looks like. The intense smell is unfamiliar. I'd pass.

 

[theonew]

I think the safest thing to do is feed it to Tony and then report back