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Schizophyllum commune
Colonia de hongos de color gris con bordes blancos y de textura aterciopelada, creciendo sobre tronco de chaká (Bursera simaruba). Cologne mushroom gray with white edges and velvety growing on the trunk Chaka ( Bursera simaruba ) .
madera en descomposición de arboles de chaká bursela simaruba que hay en terrenos con maleza del area urbana de Tampico,Tamaulipas. México. decaying wood of trees bursela Chaká simaruba is in brushy terrain urban area of Tampico , Tamaulipas. Mexico .
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Project Noah Fact of the Day: Here is another example of how the scientific name conveys meaning and helps to explain an organism. Schizophyllum commune is the scientific name for the mushrooms pictured here. Schizo is from from the Greek schizo which means to split. The suffix phylla means having leaflike parts. The specific epithet 'commune' means living communally.
Wikipedia notes, "It was initially described as a morphological species of global distribution and then revealed to be a species complex encompassing several cryptic species of more narrow distribution, as typical of many mushroom-forming Basidiomycota."
Mushrooms - split gills (Schizophyllum commune) spotted in Tamaulipas, Mexico by PN user Nacho Garcia:
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Gorgeous capture Nacho,congrats and thanks for sharing.
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Pleasure NG. They are good photos of a fungi showing the important parts. Also very good specimens. I have read that these are eaten in some parts of the world including Mexico? but they are probably very tough. The spores can be dangerous if inhaled.
Muchas gracias por ayudarme a saber el nombre de estos hongos
Mark Ridgway.
Thank you very much for helping me find the name of these fungi
Mark Ridgway
Spotted on Jan 18, 2015
Submitted on Jan 18, 2015
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