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Welcome!
Welcome to the home page for the Ohio Mushroom Society. This is the place
to come to keep up with the latest information on the club. Just follow the
links on the left to find the information you need, or feel free to
contact any of the club volunteers for answers to questions
not found here.
Featured Mushrooms
What's up in December?
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Trametes versicolor - formerly known as Coriolus versicolor
and Polyporus versicolor - is an extremely common
polypore
mushroom
which can be found throughout the world. Versicolor means 'of several
colours' and it is true that this mushroom is found in a wide variety of
different colours. T. versicolor is commonly called Turkey Tail
because of its resemblance to the tail of the
wild turkey. T. versicolor is recognized as a
medicinal mushroom in
Chinese medicine under the name yun zhi. In
China and
Japan T.
versicolor is used as in immunoadjuvant
therapy for cancer.
What's up in January?
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Leucocoprinus birnbaumii is a
species of
gilled mushroom in the
family
Agaricaceae. It is common in the tropics and subtropics, but in temperate
regions frequently occurs in hothouses and flowerpots, hence its common names of
plantpot dapperling and flowerpot parasol.
Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are
poisonous, if consumed.
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