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michael kuo no, "cf" doesn't stand for "chicken fried," even though i am writing this in the midwest (where, for the uninitiated, we actually have a popular meal called "chicken fried steak"). it's a mycological convention that abbreviates a latin verb for "compare" (conferre)—as in, "compare this mushroom
to boletus edulis." in other words, "cf" is what mycologists say when they don't want to actually say, "i dunno; maybe." maybe it's boletus edulis , the well-known, classic european species. like the european mushroom, our eastern north american version has a tacky, bald cap—and, like the european species...
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