Turkey tail
Trametes versicolor
mushroom · infusion
A leathery bracket fungus in a fan zoned with every color, too tough to eat, boiled for a long time as a decoction.
- Origin
- Forests worldwide
- Where to find it
- On dead hardwood, all year round; in China and Japan, it is sold dried in herbal shops and as extracts.
- Season (United States)
- all year round
- Preparation
- A handful of dried pieces is boiled for an hour or more in a quart of water; it is strained and drunk, and the pieces thrown away.
- Molecules
- Mushroom beta-glucans
- Did you know?
- Its bands of color earn it the English name “turkey tail”.