Lentinus prolifer
(Pat. & Har.) D. A. Reid
PolyporaceaeMushrooms
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Mushroom, Fungus
The mushroom fruiting body is edible.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant.
Africa, East Africa, Uganda,
Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
Lentinus prolifer is a tropical mushroom in the Polyporaceae family, also classified in the Agaricaceae and Tricholomataceae families.
Notes
Also put in the families Agaricaceae and Tricholomataceae.
Names & Synonyms
Ebishanja
References (2)
- Boa, E. R., 2004, Wild edible fungi and their importance to people. FAO Non Wood Forest Products Booklet 17
- Cunningham, A. B., 1996, People, park and plant use. Division of Ecological Sciences, UNESCO. p 55
