Lentinula boryana

(Berk. & Mont.) Pegler

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Lentinula boryana
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Lentinula boryana
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(c) Dr. Juan Carlos Olivo Escudero, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Dr. Juan Carlos Olivo Escudero

What to Eat

Edible parts: Mushroom, Fungus

The mushroom fruiting body is edible.

Where to Find It

It is a subtropical plant.

Guyana, Mexico, North America,

Countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, St Vincent

How to Identify

A subtropical mushroom in the Marasmiaceae family.

Wikipedia

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Lentinula boryana is a species of edible agaric fungus in the family Omphalotaceae that is found in subtropical Americas. Originally described as Agaricus boryanus by Miles Joseph Berkeley & Camille Montagne in 1849, it was moved to the genus Lentinula and given its current name by David Pegler in 1976. It is the type species of the genus Lentinula.

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