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Abalone Mushroom
A wood-decaying oyster mushroom described by O.K. Miller in 1969 and now recorded from North America, Mexico, Asia, Africa, South America and the Mediterranean. It is unusual among oysters for forming an asexual stage of small stalked coremia tipped with black droplets of spore-bearing liquid. It is grown for food as the abalone mushroom; Sri Lanka's Department of Agriculture lists an 'Abalone' oyster variety.
Edible (Wikipedia) and grown for food. The sources reviewed name no dangerous look-alikes. Other coremia-forming oysters (P. smithii, P. abalonus) and genera such as Hohenbuehelia, Panus, Panellus and Phyllotopsis can be confused with it, so wild collections need careful identification.
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