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I read a lot about it before I ate my first one a few years ago and it is one of the 4 mushrooms that are supposed to be easy to identify and on the safer side, it does not have a lot of deadly lookalikes, it is a polypore though these have not yet developed their pores. There really is nothing like it, if someone couldn't eat meat it would be a much better replacement for meat than any of the meat substitutes I have tried thus far.

Good to know. I need something like this for my kids who both love meat!

I considered giving some to my son but decided not to risk it, I would never hear the end of that one if he had a reaction!