Trametes versicolor. Trametes versicolor – also known as Coriolus versicolor and Polyporus versicolor – is a common polypore mushroom found throughout the world.
Meaning 'of several colours', versicolor reliably describes this mushroom found in different colors. By example, due to its resembling multiple colors in the tail of wild turkey, T. versicolor is commonly called turkey tail. Description and ecology[edit] The top surface of the cap shows typical concentric zones of different colours. Grifola frondosa. Agaricus subrufescens. Lingzhi mushroom. Taxonomy and naming[edit] Names for the lingzhi fungus have a two thousand year history.
The Chinese term lingzhi 灵芝 was first recorded in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 CE). Petter Adolf Karsten named the genus Ganoderma in 1881.[2]