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Pink Mold
A worldwide soil, litter and compost mold that causes pink mold on cultivated mushrooms and pink rot of harvested fruit and vegetables. It forms flat, powdery white-to-pink colonies and can parasitize mushroom fruit bodies, mostly reported on Agaricus with losses up to 90% in some cases. It also causes stipe canker of shaggy mane (Coprinus comatus), and it produces trichothecene mycotoxins.
Not edible. Produces trichothecin, roseotoxins and trichothecenes; T-2 toxin has been found in infected apples.
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