Common Fungi
While there are many, many fungi in the area of Ranu, below listed are ten common or notable ones:
- Black mold: toxic
- Blusher: poisonous
- Chantarelle: edible
- Dark-stalked bolete: edible
- Death cap: poisonous
- Destroying angel: poisonous
- Fly agaric: hallucinogenic and poisonous
- Funeral bell: poisonous
- Grey-spotted amanita: poisonous
- King bolete: edible
- Lichen: symbiosis between fungi and moss
- Oyster mushroom: commonest edible
- Parasol mushroom: fancy and edible
- Puffball: medicinal
- Purplepore bracket: helps decay the taiga
- Saffron milkcap: often pickled and eaten
- Shelf fungi: used medicinally
- Silver leaf: a disease fungi affecting trees
- Slippery jack: edible
- Yeast: of all sorts