Tramates versicolor, aka Turkey Tail mushrooms found on the Iron Horse trail near Alamo, California (below). Turkey Tail can also easily be grown in any Bay Area back yard with plug spawn and even transplanted from the wild
These mushrooms are world renowned for their beneficial health properties and are the subject of ongoing cancer research (PDF)
Interview with Paul Stamets in Huffington Post about a recent lecture on medicinal mushrooms at TedMed which is already sold out this year
Stamets talks about how Turkey Tail mushrooms helped cure his 84 year old mother of breast cancer at the end of this video (TedMed 2011)
On the Iron Horse Trail near Alamo recently
