Toxicity and Nutritional Assessment of Extracts of Medicinal Tiger Sawgill Mushroom, Lentinus tigrinus (Agaricomycetes), a Newly Domesticated in Iran.

Information on the biosafety of tiger sawgill mushroom, Lentinus tigrinus, is limited and controversial. In the present study, the toxicity of a native L. tigrinus strain was evaluated in both cell cultures and mice.