Magnificent Mushroom Monday may have featured this already, but it’s that time of year again and I’m starting to see these in my woods, along with some fresh dryad’s saddle. Trametes versicolor is not a choice edible, but a highly-sought after medicinal that’s under active research as a cancer fighter. No reason to wait for big pharma if you can find it wild, though, and it’s not terribly hard to make a weak tea of it and drink small amounts to make sure you tolerate it. A strong tea when you’ve never had it can be a nice colon cleanse if that’s what you need, but then you’re really not getting the primary benefit. Plus, it’s not really, well, tasty. At all. Turkey tail mushroom tea tastes like tree bark and despair.
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