Helpful Posts: My wife pointed this out on our hike the other day. I was completely fascinated with this thing. I had never seen anything like it before thad day. It was about the size of a softball. After researching it I discovered that it has a number of medicinal and culinary uses.
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1st January 2016, 04:44 AM #1
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Hericium Erinaceus or Lion's Mane Mushroom
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1st January 2016, 06:32 AM #2
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Re: Hericium Erinaceus or Lion's Mane Mushroom
Well taken - composition, exposure and focus all good. I have never seen one before and find it a very interesting rather than appealing mushroom. In fact I am relieved you did not video the close up view just in case all the segments wiggle independently ....
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1st January 2016, 01:46 PM #3
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Re: Hericium Erinaceus or Lion's Mane Mushroom
This is really a new thing to me; well captured; by the way, did you experiment with its culinary possibilities?
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1st January 2016, 04:07 PM #4
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Re: Hericium Erinaceus or Lion's Mane Mushroom
Nice find. New one to me.
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1st January 2016, 11:14 PM #5
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Re: Hericium Erinaceus or Lion's Mane Mushroom
Nice capture Jeffery, interesting find.
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2nd January 2016, 10:28 AM #6
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Re: Hericium Erinaceus or Lion's Mane Mushroom
Nandy...it is edible! I was about to ask but I googled it instead. Nice find, Jeff! I love mushrooms...
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3rd January 2016, 09:32 AM #7
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Re: Hericium Erinaceus or Lion's Mane Mushroom
Nice picture of an interesting mushroom. It is clearly one of the Hedgehog mushrooms (reflected in the specific epithet erinaceus). The ones I have seen in the UK have been quite small, just 4-6cm across. How big was yours?
John
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3rd January 2016, 03:22 PM #8
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Re: Hericium Erinaceus or Lion's Mane Mushroom
Thanks everyone. It was an interesting moment for sure. Nandy, I didn't test any uses of it at all! I wasn't going to touch the thing because I had no clue what it was. I didn't know if it would "sting" me or not. My wife said it looked like a sea anemone and that's all it took to freak me out.
Thank you John, it was about the size of a softball, which is about 9.7cm in diameter. When I researched it though, there were some photos that showed enormous ones that resembled cave rock formations!
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3rd January 2016, 05:22 PM #9
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Re: Hericium Erinaceus or Lion's Mane Mushroom
Chicken...cluck...cluck...cluck...
Originally Posted by Jeff Blakemore
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3rd January 2016, 07:03 PM #10
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Re: Hericium Erinaceus or Lion's Mane Mushroom
Very interesting mushroom type Jeffrey, thanks for sharing
I especially like the second image.
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