Polypore Mushrooms
Every Polypore mushroom profile on KnowTheSpore, with edibility ratings, identification tips, and safety notes.
Agarikon
Laricifomes officinalisAgarikon is a long-lived chalky conk of old conifers, especially larch, with a pale pore surface and crumbly…
Antler Reishi
Ganoderma lucidumAntler reishi is a growth form produced when a reishi culture keeps elongating instead of expanding a shelf…
Birch Polypore
Fomitopsis betulinaBirch polypore is a smooth pale bracket found almost exclusively on birch. The birch host and unzoned…
Chaga
Inonotus obliquusChaga is the black cracked mass on a living birch, and it is not a mushroom in the way most people mean. It…
Chicken of the Woods
Laetiporus sulphureusChicken of the woods is one of the easiest wild mushrooms to recognize and one of the easier ones to get…
Maitake
Grifola frondosaMaitake is the one common wild edible you can own as a place rather than find as an event. It returns to the…
Mesima
Tropicoporus linteusMesima is the trade and traditional-use name most often connected with *Phellinus linteus*, now accepted as…
Poria
Wolfiporia cocosPoria is unusual because the traded material is a buried storage structure called a sclerotium, not the…
Red-Belted Conk
Fomitopsis pinicolaRed-belted conk is a hard perennial bracket with a dark varnished crust, a red-orange band, a pale growing…
Reishi
Ganoderma sichuanenseReishi is a varnished hardwood bracket that is famous as a medicine and useless as food. The practical facts…
Turkey Tail
Trametes versicolorTurkey tail is the most photographed mushroom in the woods and one of the most often misnamed, because the…