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Does anyone remember me from a few months back in May 2015? I found a flush of Chicken-of-the-woods shelf fungi (Laetiporus) on a black cherry tree. I took half of it and made a paste with it using a blender. The rest I ate, it was godly delicious. I put the paste in these oak logs. I cut the tree down right before applying the paste to the splits I made then tied the pieces back together.
Anyway, it has been 7 months or so since then and this is what they look like today. They are obviously inoculated with some form of shelf fungi, but it is not really like Laetiporus yet in many ways it is like it. Like a smaller version of it. We have Trametes versicolor and Stereum ostrea in this area but it looks nothing like those of course. But, these are dry and leathery like those. And, this is obviously orange. It just isn't large. These are only 1/2 inch x 1 inch or so. The undersides are smooth. I've not taken a spore print, done bruising, or anything else other than these photos.
What do the rest of the mycologist here think?
I guess time will tell. If it is Laetiporus, which I doubt, perhaps the species just needs a really big biomass to flush correctly. This is an 11 on the 1-10 scale of fungi growing after all. You can normally get them to spread easily into the medium but rarely get them to flush.
