Black-skin mushroom
Oudemansiella raphanipes · 黑皮鸡枞
Occasional膨瑚菌科🍽 Cultivated Edible
A commercially cultivated edible fungus. Buy wild specimens only through reputable, regulated sources.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Cap dark brown to black, sticky when wet
- Stem slender and white, tapering downward into a rooting base
- Grows on the floor of hardwood forests; common in cultivation
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 膨瑚菌科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Wood
- How Big
- 4–12 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Occasional
- Habitat
- Cultivated; wild form on buried rotting wood
Fun Fact
Sold as 'black-skin termite mushroom,' it's actually a long-rooted Oudemansiella in a different family from true termite mushrooms — the upside is it can be cultivated.