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Laccocephalum mylittae

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

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Agaricomycetes

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Scientific name
  
Laccocephalum mylittae

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Basidiomycota

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Laccocephalum mylittae, commonly known as native bread or blackfellow's bread, is an edible Australian fungus. The hypogeous fruit body was a popular food item with Aboriginal people.

Laccocephalum mylittae Laccocephalum mylittae an ancient edible Tall trees and Mushrooms

It was originally described as Polyporus mylittae by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke and George Edward Massee in 1893, before being placed in the small genus Laccocephalum by Núñez and Leif Ryvarden in 1995.

Laccocephalum mylittae Aboriginal use of fungi

The bumpy whitish cap has wavy margins and sprouts from an underground stipe. It grows in rainforests and eucalyptus forest. The stipe is attached to a large underground fruit body that Aborigines regarded as a delicacy.

Laccocephalum mylittae Laccocephalum mylittae an ancient edible Tall trees and Mushrooms

Recorded from areas around Perth and from states in southeastern Australia, Laccocephalum mylittae, is a large, edible - though not particularly tasty - fungus that grows in rainforest and eucalypt forests. Fungimappers at the Sunnybrae Restaurant in Birregurra, Victoria tried a variety of ways to cook a specimen from the Otways in 2008

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Laccocephalum mylittae Fungimap39s Blog June 2013

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References

Laccocephalum mylittae Wikipedia


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