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Pleurocybella porrigens
Angel's Wings
Origin: Widespread in the Northern Hemisphere.
| Family |
| Marasmiaceae |
| Genus |
| Pleurocybella |
| Species |
| porrigens |
| Category |
| Fungi |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| Growth |
| Fast |
| ID Characteristic |
| Delicate, white in colour appearing like a crinkled, inverted umbrella, or almost ear-like in apperance. |
| Habitat |
| Found growing on rotting pine stumps and logs. |
| Ethnobotanical Uses (Disclaimer) |
| Considered a delicacy in Japan they have been linked to many cases of food poisoning and even death. The fungi produces an amino acid that attacks the brain cells and may cause acute encephalopathy. |
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