Observation 27395: Laetiporus gilbertsonii Burds.
When: 2009-10-26
Collection location: Santa Barbara Co., California, USA [Click for map]
Who: Luke (luuuuuke)
No specimen available
Notes:
Found growing on a very large Eucalyptus tree. Sadly, I believe the fact that it is growing on this kind of tree renders it inedible.
[admin – Sat Aug 14 02:05:36 +0000 2010]: Changed location name from ‘Santa Barbara County, CA, USA’ to ‘Santa Barbara Co., California, USA’
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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 | 3.31 | 1 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 4.94 | 1 | (nathan) | |||||
| 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) |
1.61 | 53.60% | |||||||
| 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 | 4.94 | 1 | (nathan) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 8.96 | 2 | (myxomop) | |||||
| 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) |
2.20 | 73.25% | |||||||
I personally have eaten specimens from Eucalyptus with no ill effect. The one thing that is clear is that you must cook this species thoroughly to avoid spending the night before the porcelain alter. My belief is that the rumor about Eucalyptus creating bad ones has more to do with incomplete cooking and individual sensitivity than with the host. However, I haven’t done any sort of scientific test of this nor do I know of any conclusive literature on the topic.