Hericium erinaceum - Fungus diameter 50-300 mm; compact, protruding, unbranched, spherical, hemispherical, puffy or thatched; barbed hymenophore. White, whitish, yellowish, with age ocher brown. Adhered to the ground sideways, sometimes a whole bulbous, heart-shaped in shape, part that hardens with age.

Spikes 20-60 mm long, at the base 1.5-2 mm thick; gathered in a hanging tuft, very tightly arranged, bulbously joined at the base, fragile; white-yellow, cream-colored, with age darkening to gray-brown.

Flesh thick, compact, firm, elastic, slightly fibrous, with holes; white. Taste pleasant, sweet; mushroom smell.

Occurrence: In nature found in forests, parks; on the trunks of old, dying deciduous trees, especially oaks and beeches, less often apple trees, walnuts; often high, a few meters above the ground. It grows from September to November. Very rare.
It is also grown in greenhouse conditions.

Value: Mushroom, only young