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Hericium coralloides

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Hericium coralloides, commonly known as the coral tooth or bear's head fungus, is a striking white-rot fungus that grows as a branched, coral-like or delicately antler-shaped cluster up to about 30 cm across. Short spines hang downward in rows along the upper sides of its branches. It fruits on dead and dying broadleaf trees — oak, beech, maple, walnut, sycamore and other hardwoods — most often on logs and stumps in temperate forests across North America, Europe, China and Japan. As a saprotroph it helps decompose dead wood and recycle forest nutrients. It is both edible and choice, with a…