Is this turkey tail?

Hi people, yesterday walking in The forest ( in The Amazon jungle) i found this fungi.

Is this turkey tail?

no. definitely not the mushroom i know as turkey tail.

I agree, definitely not. Some other sort of polypore though!

Turkey tail is a very small, thin mushroom.

There is a mushroom that is bigger than Turkey Tail called False Turkey Tail.

As stated previously, that mushroom is not turkey tail.

However, if you scratch the white underside with your fingernail and instantly it stains dark brown, then you might just have a member of the Ganoderma applanatum group, also known as the artist's conk or ancient ling chih:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma_applanatum

The artist's conk is a potent medicinal mushroom species found worldwide. Although it's inedible (except by gorillas and certain insects), it can be made into a tea. I drink it every morning.

Please let us know how the scratch test turns out.

M.K. Dorje Sr. wrote:As stated previously, that mushroom is not turkey tail.

However, if you scratch the white underside with your fingernail and instantly it stains dark brown, then you might just have a member of the Ganoderma applanatum group, also known as the artist's conk or ancient ling chih:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma_applanatum

The artist's conk is a potent medicinal mushroom species found worldwide. Although it's inedible (except by gorillas and certain insects), it can be made into a tea. I drink it every morning.

Please let us know how the scratch test turns out.

Yes i can draw , but it only works in The middle part of The mushrroom.  But i SEE diferences with ganoderma applanatum, The white part is not complete, it doesnt cover all The under SIDE of The mushrroom only a partir and there are some wierd things growing in The white part.

Hmm, I'm not 100% sure what you have Ronaldo, but I think the black objects could be larval galls from the midge (fly) known as Agathomyia wankowiczii, which lays its eggs on the fruiting body of the artists's conk. Check out this photo from wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma_applanatum#/media/File:Ganoderma_applanatum03.jpg

At any rate, whatever it is, it certainly doesn't look very appetizing!!! :)

But if I were you and had an interest in medicinal fungi, I would search that area for younger and healthier looking specimens of that same fungus. They also might display the staining response better for better identification. A spore print should reveal rusty brown spores, which often coat the cap of the artist's conk in a fine dust, which can be seen in the above photo.

Thank you for posting. Because I read the wikipedia article, now I know that the artist's conk can be made into a soup, not just tea. I learn new stuff every day at permies...

Yesterday i found this one. What do You think?

This article has more info about turkey tails including a description of false turkey tails.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trametes_versicolor

The fruiting body is somewhat tongue-shaped, with no discernable stalk, and the tough flesh is 1–3 millimetres (1⁄16–1⁄8 in) thick. The cap is flat, up to 10 centimetres (4 in) across.[5] It is often triangular or round, with zones of fine hairs coloured rust-brown or darker brown, sometimes with black zones.[5] Underneath a layer of tomentum is a black layer, topping the whitish flesh.[6] Older specimens can have zones with green algae growing on them.[5]

The bottom surface of the cap shows typical concentric zones of different colors, with the margin always the lightest.[7] There are 3–5 pores per mm. They are whitish to light brown,[5] with pores round and with age twisted and labyrinthine.  

Turkey tails are flexible, almost leathery and very thin.
Here's a link and photo from my mushroom thread...the colors vary a bit.  We usually see them here winter time probably just because they show up more when the foliage is gone.

Ronaldo Montoya wrote:Yesterday i found this one. What do You think?

I'm not sure what that one is, but it is definitely a polypore of some kind. And it is definitely NOT a turkey tail or Ganoderma (reishi/ling chi).

But if you keep looking, you are probably going to find turkey tail sooner or later. It is really common on old oak and other hardwood logs around here. The real turkey tail has white pores, the false one has pores that turn orange-brown. In fact, I see both all the time on my shiitake logs.