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The best known genus is Hericium, species of which are valued for their medicinal properties in Oriental medicine. Taxa are mainly known from north temperate regions, and are saprobic on rotting wood. [ 1 ]
Hericium erinaceus, commonly known as lion's mane, yamabushitake, bearded tooth fungus, or bearded hedgehog, [1] [2] is a species of tooth fungus. It tends to grow in a single clump with dangling spines longer than 1 centimetre ( 1 ⁄ 2 inch).
Hericium at the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw. Hericium is a genus of edible mushrooms in the family Hericiaceae.Species in this genus are white and fleshy and grow on dead or dying wood; fruiting bodies resemble a mass of fragile icicle-like spines that are suspended from either a branched supporting framework or from a tough, unbranched cushion of tissue.
Erinacine A, isolated from the cultured mycelia of Hericium erinaceus, the main representative of this compounds group, has an enhancing effect on nerve growth factor synthesis in vitro. [1] It also increases catecholamine in the central nervous system of rats. [citation needed] Erinacine A has also been prepared by total synthesis. [2]
Hericium erinaceus Index of fungi with the same common name This page is an index of articles on fungus species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
Grifola frondosa, known in Japan as maitake (also "hen of the woods" or "sheep's head"), a large, hearty mushroom commonly found on or near stumps and bases of oak trees, and believed to have Macrolepiota procera properties. Hericium erinaceus, a tooth fungus; also called "lion's mane mushroom"
Hericium abietis, [2] commonly known as the bear's head, conifer coral hericium, [3] or western coral hedgehog, is an edible mushroom in the tooth fungus group. It grows on conifer stumps or logs in North America, producing a cream white fruit body up to 10–75 cm (4–30 in) tall and wide. It fruits from after the start of the fall rains to ...
Hericium novae-zealandiae is a species of fungus in the Hericiaceae family. Formerly classified as Hericium coralloides which shares an almost identical morphology. [ 1 ] Being saprotrophic , H. novae-zealandiae can be observed growing from dead, decaying wood. [ 2 ]