Well, OK, I honestly don’t really know if it’s mushroom “season.“ But as autumn progresses, they seem to be popping up everywhere. I spotted this cluster on a eucalyptus tree recently.
Are they edible? I have no idea. They don’t look like the ones people sell on the side of the road. The last time we bought some of those — six years ago — we ended up throwing them out because they were so nasty. Not poisonous. Just not good. Perhaps they were the pine tree mushrooms instead of the eucalyptus tree mushrooms.
Another nice development since we moved here (recall coconut oil going from nonexistent to ubiquitous) is almost-constant availability of fresh mushrooms in the supermarkets. They’re not always at a price we want to pay, but they’re available.
Looks like “Chicken of the Woods” — but to avoided if growing on Eucalyptus (absorbs something from Eucalyptus that disagrees with some people’s bodies).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetiporus
Interesting!