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This is the Blackening Polypore, listed in older books as Meripilus giganteus. It is often mistakenly collected and eaten through confusion with the Hen of the Woods, Grifola frondosa, from which it differs by blackening when bruised, having pores on the underside that are almost too small to see, and tasting like liver.
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