Talk:Albatrellus subrubescens
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[edit]Please see Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Albatrellus subrubescens. — Cirt (talk) 00:24, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
Common ancestor?
[edit]"Wrightoporia lenta (type species of the genus Wrightoporia) occurred on a single branch basal to the albatrellus clade, implying that it was an earlier ancestor from which the Albatrellus species were derived/" "On a basal branch" would not make Wrightoporia ancestral to Albatrellus: would it be more accurate that the implication in the cited article was rather "that it shared with the Albatrellus species a common ancestor from which both were descended"?--Wetman (talk) 18:05, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
- You are quite correct; I have amended the article with your suggested text. Thanks! Sasata (talk) 20:36, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Edibility (in Finland)
[edit]As regarding whether this species ("Vuohenkääpä" in Finnish) is considered edible or poisonous in Finland, I found this page (about "Lampaankääpä", Albatrellus Ovinus": https://luontoportti.com/t/2559/lampaankaapa which says that (my partial translation):
The sheep polypore (Albatrellus ovinus) can be confused with typäskääpä (A. confluens) and vuohenkääpä (literally, "the goat's polypore", A. subrubescens) and the Hydnum repandum (in English known as sweet tooth, pig's trotter, wood hedgehog or hedgehog mushroom). ... All the species mentioned are edible.
However, the Finnish Wikipedia-page about "A. subrubescens" (see http://fi.wiki.x.io/wiki/Vuohenk%C3%A4%C3%A4p%C3%A4 ) doesn't mention anything about its edibility (except that somebody has put it into category "Suomalaiset ruokasienet", i.e., Finnish edible mushrooms), only that it is not well known as a species. In general, A. ovinus is considered a three star edible mushroom in Finland, while A. Confluens is considered only one-star, and preferably to be salted, and collected only as young.