Fungi id - jack o'lantern mushrooms

North Georgia zone 7a. At the base of a oak tree.
Im fairly sure these are chicken of the woods. I had some plugs or spawn 4 years ago that never did anything and i dont really remember where I put it. I know its hard ID from photo and the rest of the bad things with fungus....but a little help please

Maybe it's not...this has gills on the under side.

so disappointing but you are right that's not 'chicken of the woods' with those gills...maybe jack o lantern?
this video show four kind of similar ones to chicken of the woods.

I would love to find one...have not had a taste in years...


...I love the mysterious small door at the base of the tree in your photos

Yeah, definitely not chicken of the woods, which I love and haven't gotten my fingers on this year :(
I'm not a mushroom expert, but to me they look like Jack O Lantern mushrooms.  I had a lot of those under the staghorn sumac at my last house.  Was always disappointed that they weren't chanterelles.  As Judith's video explains, they are poisonous, but they are lovely mushrooms just the same.

I really would love to see some jack o'lantern mushrooms, they glow in the dark!

I have to go see if they glow. I have found a few sticks that glow. Very cool! If they do glow...the fairies will have a door light for a while.  

They do glow. Soooo cool.  Gotta love fungus!  Down side, i guess that big white oak is dying.  Up side, morw room for my princeton elm!