shrimp of the woods?

Yes they are Aborted Entoloma.....Entoloma abortivum.
I have occasionally read of them being called shrimp of the woods. But never on any other
mushroom forums. I think someone was just trying to name them as such. We always had the Hen of the woods, Chicken of the woods and now this one.
I wonder how long it is going to take for another kind of mushroom to be called
?????????? ???? of the woods.?

 

Old man of the woods .

 

Nice score DanSS26

 

Same here, forager chef is my way also. I do want to try the battered drakes deep fryer method like MJ does someday.
I use them as long as pink inside, firmer the better imo. They can be buggers to clean up.

 

I always find them after the bugs do .

 

I will get rid of everything that is brown. White and pink is all i want to see. I will also eat the
un-aborted Entoloma.

 

An unreal flush of aborted in sw right now. Found a woods with literally I'd say over 100,000 ground covered for 100 yards. Picked a enough for a few meals and then found 8 beautiful hens. Picked 4 left 4 for seed. O amd FWIW not old man of the woods. That is a bolete species. White with blackish hairs on cap

 

Shrimp Of The Woods is a common name for them.

 

The reason i said what i did, i spend over 10 years on another Mushroom site and Never heard mention of Aborted entoloma as Chicken of the woods. js

 

I think you did a typo with chicken of the woods. I can fix it if you would like.
Different groups seem to use different names sometimes. I did see that Wikipedia mentions Shrimp Of The Woods.

What rankles me though is when people use a name that one mushroom is known by to mean another, like “beefsteak”.