Observation 266021: Ganoderma P. Karst.
When: 2017-01-01
Seen at: Norwich, Connecticut, USA [Click for map]
Who: Sam.Schaperow (SamSchaperow)
No specimen available
Notes:
Is this Reishi, or perhaps something resembling it?
Also, I noticed the picture showing it cooked shows it in soups and/or stews. Have you any knowledge/experience of using it this way?
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| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 4.88 | 1 | (SamSchaperow) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 5.83 | 1 | (Alan Rockefeller) | |||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
-1.08 | -35.91% | |||||||
| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 4.89 | 2 | (St. Alfonzo,MSchink) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
2.49 | 83.02% | |||||||
Which species is difficult to articulate from slices you will have to do microscopy and maybe even DNA since you can’t see the overall morphology. Some possibilities are Ganoderma multipileum and Ganoderma lingzhi, both species are cultivated in China.