Coprinus comatus, the shaggy mane. Tom Volk's Fungus of the Month for May 2004

Coprinus comatus, the shaggy mane. Tom Volk's Fungus of the Month for May 2004: "This month's fungus is Coprinus comatus, the shaggy mane mushroom, also known as the "lawyer's wig." It is a delicious edible mushroom, one of Clyde Christensen's "Foolprof Four," which also includes Morchella species, the morels, Calvatia gigantea, the giant puffball, and Laetiporus sulphureus, the chicken of the woods, or sulfur shelf mushroom. Clyde Christensen was a professor at the University of Minnesota who published the "Foolproof Four" in 1943 in a book called "Common Edible Mushrooms" in 1943. His intention was to popularize mushroom hunting by educating the generally mycophobic public that there are in fact some edible mushroom that are easily identified. "

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