She looks like she’s having an intense conversation with it
cool
That just looks like an old pile of meat on the forest floor
A picture of its underside
I am uneducated and curious, is it common practice to disturb these specimens?
What you see here is the mushroom, basically the gonads of the organism (technically the “fruiting body”, something that is there to spread the spores). The bulk of the fungus is inside the dead tree, putting out digestive juices and eating it.
There’s no real harm to it to take it out. Or to use a knife and take a piece of it. It’s common practice to use porous bags to carry them so you’re helping it spread the spores around as you’re foraging.
Really cool thanks
Reishi messes me up something awful. Strongest and weirdest (definitely not good weird) reaction to a tea I have ever had.
A friend of mine says it helps with her epilepsy, but in general I don’t buy into the “health” claims
Placebo is a powerful non-drug.
