swap_horiz Ganoderma applanatum Alternatives

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Ganoderma lucidum

Ganoderma lucidum, commonly known as reishi or lingzhi, is a polypore mushroom native to Asia. It’s notable for its long...

Medicinal Asian Immune Support Polypore

9.0 Excellent

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Grifola frondosa

Grifola frondosa, commonly known as maitake or hen-of-the-woods, is a polypore mushroom associated with oak trees. It’s...

Medicinal Asian Edible Polypore

9.0 Excellent

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Pleurotus ostreatus

Pleurotus ostreatus, the oyster mushroom, is a widely cultivated edible fungus first commercially grown in Germany durin...

Cosmopolitan Culinary Edible Oyster

8.7 Great

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Trametes versicolor

Trametes versicolor, the turkey tail, is one of the world's most studied medicinal fungi, found on dead wood across ever...

Cosmopolitan Medicinal Immune Support Polypore

8.5 Great

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Inonotus obliquus

Known as chaga, this parasitic fungus grows on birch trees in boreal climates and has been used in traditional Russian a...

Birch Medicinal North American Polypore

8.5 Great

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Coprinus comatus

Shaggy ink cap, a widespread edible mushroom notable for autodigesting its gills into black inky fluid through deliquesc...

Cosmopolitan Grassland Edible Inkcap

8.5 Great

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Laetiporus sulphureus

Known as chicken of the woods, this edible bracket fungus is identified by its striking sulphur-yellow and orange colora...

European Oak Edible Polypore

8.0 Great

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Antrodia camphorata

A rare medicinal bracket fungus endemic to Taiwan that grows exclusively on the endangered Cinnamomum kanehirae tree, ma...

Rare Medicinal Taiwanese Polypore

8.0 Great

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Psilocybe cubensis

A pantropical psilocybin-containing mushroom first formally described from Cuba by Earle in 1906, now the most widely cu...

Cosmopolitan Tropical Psychoactive Dung

8.0 Great

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Ganoderma sinense

Ganoderma sinense is a Chinese species closely related to Ganoderma lucidum, distinguished by its darker basidiospores,...

Medicinal Asian Polypore Black Reishi

7.8 Good

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Fomes fomentarius

Known as tinder fungus or hoof fungus, this perennial bracket fungus has been used for fire-starting for millennia and w...

European Polypore Perennial Inedible

5.8 Mediocre

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Fomitopsis pinicola

Fomitopsis pinicola is a brown rot fungus causing significant timber degradation, designated as the type species for the...

European Conifer Polypore Inedible

5.5 Mediocre

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Phellinus igniarius

A perennial woody bracket fungus parasitic on willows and other hardwoods, producing hoof-shaped conks historically used...

European Polypore Perennial Willow

5.3 Mediocre

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Daedalea quercina

Known as oak mazegill, this bracket fungus on oak stumps is distinguished by exceptionally thick, maze-like (daedaloid)...

European Polypore Saprotrophic Inedible

5.0 Mediocre

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Trametes hirsuta

A bracket fungus widespread on dead hardwoods across temperate zones, distinguished by its densely hairy gray cap and cr...

European Hairy Polypore Saprotrophic

4.8 Poor

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Trametes gibbosa

A bracket fungus common on beech stumps in Europe and North America, notable for its distinctly humped cap surface and e...

European Polypore Saprotrophic Inedible

4.3 Poor

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Inonotus hispidus

A bracket fungus with a distinctly hairy, rusty-brown surface, parasitic mainly on ash trees across Europe and North Ame...

European Ash Polypore Inedible

4.3 Poor

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Abortiporus biennis

A morphologically variable polypore found at the base of living and dead deciduous trees across Europe and North America...

European Polypore Saprotrophic Inedible

4.3 Poor

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Inonotus dryadeus

Inonotus dryadeus is a large bracket fungus that causes severe heart rot in living oak trees, first described by mycolog...

European Oak Polypore Weeping

4.3 Poor

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Bjerkandera adusta

A saprotrophic bracket fungus found on dead hardwoods worldwide, identified by its smoky-gray pore surface that darkens...

European Smoky Polypore Saprotrophic

3.8 Poor