Fungi Friday : Unique White-Grey Mushroom

Hello friends of the #FungiFriday community, not a week has passed and today we have arrived again on Friday. I hope all my friends are in good health always.

This afternoon around 16.20 pm I picked up my wife from her duty as a high school teacher in Sukma Bangsa Lhokseumawe and I arrived at the Sukma Bangsa school around 16.30 pm. Because my wife still has something to do with her friend, while waiting for my wife to come out of her room, I take a walk around the school yard. My intention to take a walk in the school yard is to breathe fresh air and also look for mushrooms because I know and have seen some beautiful mushrooms growing in the Sukma Bangsa school yard. Yes, not far to walk I saw in front of me lay a burnt wood tree. At the end of the used wood there is a white lump mixed with gray just like a circular cloth. I was immediately convinced that the lump must be a fungus. I did not waste this mushroom finding and immediately took the phone to take a picture.

I remember today is Friday and of course a day of joy for us mushroom-loving hivians in our beloved community #fungifriday. Then I tried to find out on google by matching this mushroom photo, but nothing exactly matched it. When I searched with photos of mushrooms that I found, there appeared a type of mushroom from the Schizophyllum Commune family. Finally, because I didn't find anything that matched the photo of the mushroom I found, I chose the mushroom that I think is the closest match, namely the Grigit Mushroom.

Mushroom Grigit or another name is (Schizophyllum Commune). This wood fungus is often found on the trunks of teak trees, rambung, and pintangur wood. The characteristics of this fungus are gray, the width of the umbrella is not up to 6cm, small and often clustered when it appears. This mushroom is edible, its delicious taste can sometimes be used as a mixture of dishes such as tauco, stir-fry, or more often in peanut brittle. This fungus will only appear during the rainy season and grows a lot in tropical areas around Indonesia. However, there are other types of mushrooms that resemble this mushroom but are not edible because they are not gritty mushrooms.