Justin, it may be. These are usually at the base of oak trees. Shannon, if it's one of those big pompom Heiraciums that look like a poodle's ass sticking out of a tree trunk, they're great just pulled apart and sauteed in some butter and olive oil. Cook 'em fairly low and slow to get them tender. They have a good flavor if they're fresh. I about knocked a buddy of mine out once with one of those. We were walkiing through the woods 'sang digging when I saw this big enormous tooth fungus growing about thirty feet up in a tree. It was about the size of a basketball. I went and cut a big long sapling pole and told him to catch it when I poked it out. We couldn't tell from the ground that it was about a month old, soaked slap full of water, and weighed about thirty pounds.
I got the sapling pole up there and gouged it out, and when he caught it, it made this big "splat" sound and knocked him flat on the ground. It 'sploded when it hit him, and it was about rotten and smelled like a big soured dishrag. It took him about five minutes to get his breath going again, and he was soaked in soured dishrag juice from head to toe, had little strings of 'sploded rotten mushroom all stuck in his hair and beard, and he was mad as hell.
