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Orange Mock Oyster
A bright orange, hairy, stemless shelf mushroom that grows in overlapping clusters on dead wood. Many collections smell strongly of skunk cabbage or rotten cabbage. Its shape resembles an oyster mushroom, but its orange color, fuzzy cap and very pale pink spore print set it apart. It is the type species of Phyllotopsis.
Inedible. It is not known to be poisonous, but its foul odor makes it unpalatable. It matters mostly as an oyster mushroom (Pleurotus) look-alike. True oysters are white, gray or tan, with white to lilac-gray spore prints and no fuzzy orange cap.
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