Hericium ramosum
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Hericium ramosum is an edible mushroom
in the tooth fungus group. It is often mistaken for Hericium coralloides due to their shared traits and similar looks. It can be identified by its tendency to grow all the spines out from branches, short spines (less than 1 cm length) and its appearance on hardwood logs and stumps. Hericium ramosum can be mistaken for three other species of Hericium
which also grow in North America, which are all edible. "Hericium ramosum" is not only edible, but also delicious.
Mushroom
A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi that...
in the tooth fungus group. It is often mistaken for Hericium coralloides due to their shared traits and similar looks. It can be identified by its tendency to grow all the spines out from branches, short spines (less than 1 cm length) and its appearance on hardwood logs and stumps. Hericium ramosum can be mistaken for three other species of Hericium
Hericium
Hericium is a genus of edible mushrooms in the Hericiaceae family. Species in this genus are white and fleshy and grow on dead or dying wood; fruiting bodies resemble a mass of fragile icicle-like spines that are suspended from either a branched supporting framework or from a tough, unbranched...
which also grow in North America, which are all edible. "Hericium ramosum" is not only edible, but also delicious.