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Polyporaceae Mushrooms

Polyporaceae mushrooms on KnowTheSpore, with edibility ratings, identification tips, and safety notes.

A cluster of turkey tail bracket fungi on a mossy log, thin overlapping fans banded in brown, rust, tan and gray

Turkey Tail

Trametes versicolor

Turkey tail is the most photographed mushroom in the woods and one of the most often misnamed, because the…

Medicinal
Whole poria sclerotium cut open to show its thin brown rind and dense white interior

Poria

Wolfiporia cocos

Poria is unusual because the traded material is a buried storage structure called a sclerotium, not the…

Medicinal

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