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Found at the base of a live tree in Deep River County Park. Also known as Ram's Head, Sheep's Head, and in Japan, Maitake (or so the internet tells me).
If this is really Hen of the Woods, it's edible, but I'm not sure enough of any of my identifications to risk an agonizing death, or what is worse, having to admit to the EMTs that I was stupid enough to eat wild mushrooms when I've only just begun learning them.
From the Hobart Gazette of September 3, 1915:
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