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SKU: | AN716 |
GTIN: | 9009538000965 |
Shipping weight: | 0,25 kg |
Item weight: | 0,23 kg |
Content: | 100,00 ml |
Synonyms: Monkey's Head, Lion's Mane mushroom, Bearded Tooth mushroom, Hedgehog mushroom, Bearded Hedgehog mushroom, Pom-Pom mushroom, Bearded Tooth fungus
Hericium erinaceus is an edible mushroom and medicinal mushroom in the tooth fungus group. It can be identified by its tendency to grow all the spines out from one group (rather than branches), long spines and its appearance on hardwoods. Although it is growing in Europe, it is not well known.
Natural habitat:
Hericium prefers dead hardwood such as oak, walnut, beech, maple, sycamore tree. Common during late summer and fall on hardwoods.
Usage:
Medicinal and edible mushroom
For its unique delicious taste and the very decorative coral-like look the lion´s mane mushroom gets more and more a sought component of nouvelle cuisine. Out in the nature, Hericium erinaceus can be found in deciduous forests of Europe, North America and Asia (in particular in China and Japan).
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycetes
Class: Agaricomycetidae
Order: Russulales
Family: Hericiaceae
Genus: Hericium erinaceus
Spores: White, elliptic, from smooth to slightly rough; 5.5 - 7 x 4.5 - 5.5 µ