Edible, therapeutic and toxic mushrooms
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Silver leaf fungus
Chondrostereum purpureum
Frequency
Common
Habitat
On dead or live hardwood, rarely coniferous. May cause damage in orchards.
Cap
Spreading and reflective. Hairy, wrinkled, indistinctly zoned, dark brown to buff, grey with age,
Margin
Distinctly delineated, often paler, whitish.
Tubes
Absent.
Hymenium surface
Tuberculate, brown, purplish to purple-pink, buff.
Stalk
Absent.
Flesh
Leathery, brownish with a dark central line visible when cut.
Basal Mycelium
White.
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Condrostereum stereum was the subject of a research project in the 1990s at Hydro Québec to control deciduous shrub vegetation under power lines and along roadsides. Laurentian Mushrooms, a company located in Abitibi, participated in this project by producing the high-density liquid mycelial cultures needed for these tests and the approval of the process in its laboratory.
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