This one goes by a bunch of different common names from pheasant back to hawks wing, to dryad saddle(depending on geography, but all refer to the same mushroom) Polyporus Squamosus or if you prefer the nomenclature based on modern genetics: Cerioporus squamosus. I call it watermelon of the woods because of the smell. It is edible when very, very young and not too woody yet. It kind of cooks up like king trumpet, but not nearly as delicious. Some say the watermelon flavor comes out when you cook it, I’ve never found that to be true, but never-the-less, perhaps seasoning with mint would be a good way to go to get the watermelon flavor to come forward.
I would say it is either a black staining polypore: meripilus sumstinei or maybe a Berkeley polypore: Bondarzewia berkeleyi. I’m kind of leaning towards the latter if it is not staining black when bruised, which would be an obvious tell for the former.
Because of how dehydrated these are I am reluctant to agree that it is for sure a honey mushroom (Armillaria mellea). It doesn’t look like any honey mushroom I’ve seen in the woods, though it bears certain resemblances, namely the annulus and the habit (growing from a tree root). It could well be a honey mushroom, I just don’t usually see them that dry looking. And usually in much bigger clusters around Oak trees where I live. I just personally don’t feel sure enough to say it would be safe to collect and eat and to me they are certainly not anything to write home about anyway. I prefer when they interact with entalomas to create the aborted entaloma.
They could be pluerotus Ostreatus, or oyster mushrooms, but the best way to tell would be to see how far down the stem the gills run. They should be fully decurrent(or run all the way down the stem, essentially right up to the mycelium). Another ID point is the smell. They should smell uniquely like the oyster mushrooms at the store, which is to say kind of savory, somewhere between chicken soup and scallops. Depending on the type of wood it could be kind of sweet smelling as they often taken on characteristics of maple syrup when growing on maple trees. If you can’t positively ID these as Pluerotus Ostreatus, please put aside the FOMO and the pressure from other inexperienced mushroom hunters to eat them. You should never eat anything you can’t positively identify. That goes for mushrooms, plants, anything. Think of it as any other unknown item you picked up off the ground. Would you just pick stuff up off the ground and put it in your mouth? No. Furthermore, don’t trust AI apps, they are notoriously bad at identifying mushrooms. They hallucinate their own facts and I could show you numerous examples of them being dangerously wrong. Especially in the case of a mushroom growing outside of its usual context. Oyster mushrooms, generally grow on trees. They have been known to colonize a compost pile or wood chips, but its not the usual. There are a lot of things these could be from the picture. As always its best not to eat something that you are not confident about. The best way to gain confidence is to get used to the process of IDing mushrooms until you can look at it with certainty and know what it is.
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