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Hericium erinaceus
The bearded tooth is a beardlike whitish mass growing on trunks of living deciduous trees and on fallen trees and logs. Season August–November. Fruiting body a round, unbranched mass of long, hanging, toothlike spines, each ½–2 inches long; spines hanging evenly from a central base; white, becoming yellowish; texture smooth. Stalk not present. Spore white. This spotting seems to be about 6 inches across. It had been raining most of the day and this bearded tooth seemed to be water logged.
Grows singly, on the trunks of living deciduous trees and on fallen trees and logs. This particular spotting was on a pin oak tree in a mostly pine forest in the Magnolia Springs State Park in Millen, Georgia
Spotted on Dec 28, 2014
Submitted on Dec 29, 2014
2 Comments
No I haven't Mark. It can only be eaten when it is young, otherwise it has a sour taste (according to the website). I've only seen two in my life and this is the second one. Pretty neat looking.
That's a cracker of a specimen ! Have you ever sampled it's culinary properties ?