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Wood Decay Mushrooms

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

Large chalky white agarikon conk with a cracked surface growing high on an old conifer trunk

Agarikon

Laricifomes officinalis

Agarikon is a long-lived chalky conk of old conifers, especially larch, with a pale pore surface and crumbly…

Medicinal
Large orange big laughing gym cluster with rusty gills and ringed stems - Big Laughing Gym | KnowTheSpore

Big Laughing Gym

Gymnopilus junonius

Big laughing gym is a large, bitter, orange-rust wood-decay mushroom with crowded gills, a stem ring, and a…

POISONOUS

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