Mushrooms you can draw on: The Artists Conch

This video is about a mushroom thats fun for kids to pick too, and can be a great artists medium. Its known as the artists conch or artists bracket fungi, or in latin as Ganoderma Applanatum. This shelf, bracket, or conch fungi(whichever you prefer to call it, loves to grow on old decaying conifer logs and stumps in the forests of the PNW. It has a pore surface, as it is a polypore in the same family as the reishi mushroom, that is easily 'bruised' when scratched with a stick or your finger. Its a perfect mushroom to interest kids in so they can start to identify wild mushrooms and start to understand the usefulness and beauty of wild mushrooms.