Mushroom!!

Common Name: Oyster Mushroom

Width of cap: 1 - 3 inches

Cap: Convex with an incurved margin at first, often becoming flattened with an upturned wavy margin in age, fan-shaped, oyster shell-shaped, or semicircular in outline; surface glabrous, smooth, satiny when dry; color variable, white to cream, grayish to brown, sometimes with lilac tones; Flesh  tough at the point of attachment, otherwise tender, odor pleasant, anise-like, taste mild. 

Gills: Radiating from point of attachment, often decurrent, moderately close to crowded; cream at first, becoming yellowish in age or in drying. 

Stalk: Short, eccentric to lateral, or more or less central when growing on top of a horizontal substrate, sometimes absent; whitish, base often fuzzy. 

Spore Print: White to pale lilac.

Occurrence: Gregarious, usually in overlapping clusters, sometimes solitary, on living or dead standing trunks, logs, and stumps of broad-leaved trees, less frequently on hemlock or pine; parasitic and saprobic; spring-early winter; common. 

Edibility: EDIBLE and very good when young and fresh, discard the tough basal portion. Small black beetles and other insects that often inhabit the gills can be evicted by tapping on the caps