Want to see my shame? I am 47 years old, I started looking at the ground everywhere I walked trying to identify the weeds I saw when I was a pre-teen. Always staring down. Always too afraid of touching mushrooms to knock them over for a good look. This many years, and until I got a book to help me learn to identify them, I had no idea that not all mushrooms have gills. Not a single clue in all those years.

@tippitiwichet If it's any comfort to you, I'm in my mid-40s and only just learned about polypores, too. Got into mushroom growing a couple years ago. Biology classes spend little time on fungi, and growing them is still a pretty niche subset of gardening. Learning is a lifelong process... Great pictures!

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@HaikuHedgehog An oyster mushroom kit totally started all of this :). Oyster mushrooms now help me recycle my Amazon box cardboard. And thank you :)

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