Coral Hericium (Hericium coralloides)
Systematics:- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Incertae sedis (undefined)
- Order: Russulales
- Family: Hericiaceae (Hericiaceae)
- Genus: Hericium (Gericium)
- Species: Hericium coralloides (Hericium coral)
Other names:
- Coral mushroom
- Blackberry trellis
- Hericium branched
- Hericium coral
- Hericium coral
- Hericium trellate
Fruiting body
Bushy, branched, 5-15 (20) cm in size, white or cream-colored, with long (0.5-2 cm) dense, even or curved, fragile thorns.
Controversy
Spore powder is white.
Pulp
Elastic, fibrous, white with a pleasant mushroom smell, later - tough.
Habitat
The coral-shaped hedgehog grows from early July to mid-September on stumps and valezha deciduous species (aspen, oak, more often birch), singly, very rarely. Hericium coral is a rare or even very rare mushroom.
It is considered an edible mushroom.
Similar Species: Coral Hericium is unlike any other mushroom. That's the idea.
It is included in the Red Book of Russia.