Gardening: It’s not a loaf of bread in the yard, it’s a Ganoderma mushroom

Question: While walking our dogs in the neighborhood, I saw something I’ve never seen before. It looked like a loaf of some kind of bread under a tree. Then I saw there were several other “loaves.” The biggest one is the size of a dinner plate! I’m guessing these must be in the mushroom family. — June Valentine, Granada Hills
Answer: I did not know the identity of your discovery but was able to find it by going to the website mushroomobserver.org. I upload