musroom ID help

[luteai]

Location is the Spokane Valley. Can anyone help me ID these fungi?  Critters are leaving them alone.

1. appeared today, 6 inches tall
2looked like 3 until it flattened out (7 inches across)

Thanks

[Timberstalker]

Looks like a 2 stepper.

@pianoman9701 will know more.

[JimmyHoffa]

puffball?

[hawks33]

Looks like a shaggy parasol, hard to tell with mushrooms sometimes. Especially from pics

[nitroelk]

it also kind of looks like a amanita. My strategy works pretty well so far, If you don't KNOW it throw it

[pianoman9701]

Hard to tell from the pics. Could be a puffball but it's very dark for what is normally almost white. No shaggy, I don't think. There are others it could be. Get a book and do a spore print as well as identifying location, time of year, etcetera.

[CougHunter]

Definitely not an amanita or puffball. I also think shaggy parasol is a reasonable guess, but it's strange that the cap is all white.

[Angry Perch]

chicken of the woods?

[LandofRath]

I would need more info to identify, could be a few poisonous mushrooms like the Chlorophyllum molybdites.
There are a few shaggy look alikes. They are one of the mushrooms you need to be experienced in looking for.

I have been finding lots of Chantrelles and Hedge Hogs here on the coast lately.

[GrampasGuns]

chicken of the woods?

NO!

We rarely find true chicken of the woods in this state, they rely on OAK or other hardwoods. That is a type of sulphur shelf but known to cause terrible stomach issues.

[pianoman9701]

chicken of the woods?

NO!

We rarely find true chicken of the woods in this state, they rely on OAK or other hardwoods. That is a type of sulphur shelf but known to cause terrible stomach issues.

Not true. I sell thousands of lbs of COW each year, all picked in WA and OR. I find them mainly on dead conifers but occasionally hardwoods.  Doug fir stumps and logs are the best. They don't make you sick unless you're eating old, dried out ones or overeating, which causes gastric distress.

[Moe the Sleaze]

There's lots of chicken of the woods out on the coast