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Photo by Hinshu
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Field Notes

Description:

Redish and banded mushrooms caps, green in some areas, lack stems, extremely numerous

Habitat:

Growing from a fallen tree

Species ID Suggestions

False Turkey-tail fungus

Stereum ostrea

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Doren B
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Comments (1)
Hinshu
Am now pretty sure that these are called False Turkey Tail. They aren’t necessarily edible (have only been told so from the reasoning that their texture is bad, nothing regarding if they are poisonous etc.), but have been proven to be antibacterial and anti-fungal, primarily the latter.
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PublishedJune 9, 2020

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