Wild Reishi?

Wild Reishi?

by Kevin
(Orlando, FL USA)

I was walking around in my neighborhood and found some wild mushrooms that seem to be Ganoderma lucidum or reishi. Attached is what we found.

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florida mushroom
by: bradley

i found some of these reishi in jacksonville fl. never knew they grew in florida thought they where a more northern thing .

Florida Mycology Clubs
by: Amy

Hi Kevin,

Unfortunately I don't know any Florida mushroom lovers personally, you might be the first! You can try looking at these sites:

http://www.namyco.org/clubs/index.html
http://www.mykoweb.com/na_mycos.html

I don't really see anything near Orlando but the webmasters may know with whom to put you in touch.

Good luck!

wild ganoderma lucidum
by: kevin

Hi, thanks for your reply. I found the wild reishi growing under the oak trees and dead oak tree's stump. Do you know any specialists
in the orlando area that I can confirm my wild mushroom are ganoderma lucidum? Thank you for your help.

kevin

Reishi
by: Amy

Hi Kevin,

I saw your email but figured I'd answer you here. Nice pictures!

I'm always nervous about identifying stuff over the Internet. There's rarely enough information with just a picture, and I would be devastated if someone got hurt. So I give all online identifications the same grain-of-salt warning: it's difficult to truly tell what something is from a picture alone. Never eat anything based on an Internet identification, always show your finds to a local expert hands-on.

That said, I'll say that these do indeed look like some form of reishi. From the color to the kidney shape to the seemingly polypore underside, it certainly looks like Ganoderma to me. I'd be curious to know more about the environment in which you found it, such as what kind of tree it was growing on.

There are many species of Ganoderma besides Ganoderma lucidum (about 80 according to Wikipedia). Even if you don't have lucidum, there are fortunately no known poisonous Ganoderma species and many others are known for their medicinal properties as well.

See my identification page for some more information:

http://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/reishi-mushroom-identification.html

Thanks again for sharing your beautiful pictures!

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