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Porcelain Fungus
Oudemansiella mucida, the porcelain fungus, is a white, very slimy gilled mushroom of beech wood in Europe. It grows on dead trunks and fallen branches and sometimes high on living beech as a weak parasite. It produces strobilurins, antifungal compounds that were the starting point for the strobilurin agricultural fungicides.
Edibility disputed: some sources treat it as edible once the slime is washed off or the cap skin peeled, while others describe it as mildly toxic. The flesh is thin. Not recommended.
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