PORES

Chicken of the woods

Fertile surface: Pores

Spore print: white

Yellow white and orange pore surface

Overlapping brackets and rosettes

Lookalike Cinnabar and dryers polypore

Beef steak mushroom

Fertile surface: Pores

Spore print: Pink

Bleeds red when cut

Soft thick flesh

Lookalike none

Turkey Tail

Fertile surface: Pores

Spore print: white

Concentric color zones

Growing in shelves on wood

Look alikes false turkey tail, purple tinged polypore, stiff gilled polypore

Umbrella polypore

Fertile surface: Pores

Spore print: White

Key trait: umbrella shaped cap

Key trait: Growing on oak and beach

Lookalikes: Maitakes

Reishi

Fertile surface: Pores

Spore print: Brown

Key trait: Shiny varnished cap

Key trait: shelf/bracket growing on trees or logs

Lookalikes: red banded conk, conifer mazegill

Maitake mushroom

Fertile surface: Pores

Spore print: White

Key trait: Large clustered rosettes

Key trait growing at the base of oak trees

Key trait: frilly brown caps

Look alikes: Berkeley’s polypore, Black staining polypore

King boletes

Fertile surface: pores

Spore print: Olive green to yellowish brown