Teeth up to 2 5 cm long usually 0 5 to 1 0 cm long fleshy but brittle.
Bears head tooth mushroom.
All edible wild fungi must be cooked.
Stem thick knob like tough.
Hericiaceae is white when fresh and yellows with age.
The scientific name of the bear s head tooth fungus is hericium americanum and it is from the family hericiaceae a family of fungi.
Cap 10 to 75 cm across main branches up to 3 cm thick branching repeatedly bearing clusters of spines on the ends of branches and from lateral nodules white to creamy yellowish buff orange buff.
Bear s head is part of a group of closely related tooth fungi that is they release their spores from tooth like or hair like structures rather than from gills that have rather confusing names i.
Bear s head tooth fungi are also known as bear s head mushrooms and pom pom blanc and were first scientifically described by james ginns of canada in 1984.
To begin with they are sometimes all referred to as lion s mane a name that more properly refers to h.
It has long spines and a branched fruiting body.
Bear s head mushrooms botanically classified as hericium americanum are one of north america s only hericium species and is a member of the hericiaceae family.