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Common Edible Mushrooms

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<strong>Edible</strong>: GENUS Clavaria<br />

Club Fungi<br />

All Clavarias are edible, and although the texture of most of<br />

them is definitely tough, the flavor is usually excellent, and they<br />

lend themselves readily to drying. There are many different spe-<br />

Figure 58. Clavaria stricta. <strong>Edible</strong>.<br />

cies, some of them too small to deserve notice for our purposes,<br />

but others large, conspicuous, easily recognized, and common.<br />

The photograph of Clavaria stricta growing on a rotten aspen<br />

log (Figure 58) shows the general Clavaria form and habit better<br />

than words. Characteristic are (i) their upright growth and<br />

(2) their repeatedly branching stems, the tips of which always<br />

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