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Hen of the Woods, Maitake, Grifola frondosa

Description:

obscene amounts of maitake almost totally ringing the base of a dying oak tree in Prospect Park. Near the fork of a path that goes into the woods, and the horse path. Some of the it was getting old but there were some tender new fronds coming out! hooray!

Habitat:

base of trees

1 Species ID Suggestions

HemaShah
HemaShah 12 years ago
Hen Of the woods
Grifola frondosa Grifola frondosa


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1 Comment

garylincoff
garylincoff 13 years ago

Great find - see what else is around - bet there are lots of little things on wood you can find in the area!

anne yen
Spotted by
anne yen

NYC, New York, USA

Spotted on Nov 11, 2010
Submitted on Nov 11, 2010

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