The Turkey Tail is one of the most famous mushrooms. It grows all year round and is a very common annual saprophyte on stumps and branches of deciduous trees. It sometimes occurs on spruce as well. The fruiting bodies grow on one side of the stump or branch.
The Turkey tail grows in groups and has a white edge with differently coloured zones within: white, beige, ochre yellow, (red)brown, grey, blue or blackish. The sturdy, fan-shaped hats are 3-8 cm in size and usually not thicker than 2 mm. The pores consist of very small tubes (three to five per mm), which are whitish to creamy or yellowish in colour. The spores have the shape of a snail sausage and are white to pale yellow and 4-6 x 1.5-2.5 µm in size.
Turkey tail helps to break down the fallen leaves in the forest.
This fungus is also widely used in biotechnology for the production of laccase, a lignin-degrading product often used in the paper industry as a bleaching agent.
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