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Cool! Thanks. I was thinking...they kinda look like turkey tail, but the color spectrum is lacking...what other shelf mushrooms (conks) are there?
definitely not turkey tail
they look a lot like reishi to me, tbh - definitely some kind of Ganoderma spp. but probably not the artist conk, and unless it's hemlock I doubt it's G. tsugae, and since G. lucidum is only in Asia it's not that. There are like 16 different reishi species native to North America, so it's one of those.
If the tree is a conifer, it's possible it could be a reishi look-alike, the species complex Fomitopsis pinicola, but it doesn't look like a conifer to me, so I still think it's a reishi.
There are many, many shelf fungi, but not all of them are reishi look-alikes so I think this is probably just reishi, tbh.