For those in the (mushroom) know - is this a hen of the woods?

[pdq]

Seen on a walk this morning, suburban Minneapolis:









Not going to eat them in any case, but it made me wonder. First two pix (dinner plate size) from opposite sides of the same big stump; third from the side of a dead (upright) tree, and fourth at the base of a living tree. Same area.

While they look different shades of buff-to-orange in the pix, in life they looked more similar.

Anyone know?

[Forrest]

This fungi is called conk. Conk only grows on dead wood. I just had a large Maple tree cut down because it had conk growing inside the tree trunk. There is no treatment. If a limb has conk, the tree might be saved if the limb is cut off.

A google search for ‘conk on a tree’ lists a definition and many images.

Conks are fungal fruiting bodies that sometimes resemble mushrooms attached to fir trees. Although mushrooms are also fungi, they have gills that conks lack. Conks are commonly called shelf or bracket fungi because their attachment on trees often has a shelflike appearance.

[mrbigstuff]

chicken of the woods on bottom, more than likely

[NewtonMP2100]

....not hen.....pecked.....??