Hericium coralloides
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Incertae sedis (of uncertain position)
- Order: Russulales (Russulovye)
- Family: Hericiaceae (Hericaceae)
- Genus: Hericium (Hericium)
- Type: Hericium coralloides
- Coral mushroom
- Blackberry lattice
- Hericium branched
- Hericium coral
- Hericium coral
- Hericium ethmoid
Fruit body
Bushy, branched, 5-15 (20) cm in size, white or cream, with long (0,5-2 cm) thick, even or curved, brittle spines.
Споры
Spore powder is white.
Pulp
Elastic, fibrous, white with a pleasant mushroom smell, later hard.
Inhabitation
Hedgehog coral grows from early July to mid-September on stumps and deadwood of hardwoods (aspen, oak, more often birch), singly, very rarely. Coral hedgehog is a rare or even very rare mushroom.
Considered an edible mushroom.
Similar species: Coral hedgehog is not like any other mushroom. That’s the idea.