🇺🇸 hen-of-the-woods - 🇩🇪 Gemeiner Klapperschwamm - 🇪🇪 Leht-kobartorik

🇺🇸 hen-of-the-woods - 🇩🇪 Gemeiner Klapperschwamm - 🇪🇪 Leht-kobartorik - 🇷🇺 Грифола курчавая 10/10-18/25

🆔 Grifola frondosa (Dicks.) Gray
ℹ️ Hymenium: Pores, small and rounded when young (≈1–3/mm), becoming angular with maturity, tubes shallow (2–3 mm)
ℹ️ Fronds: Composed of many overlapping fan-shaped fronds, forming a rosette, wavy margins, color zones of tan, olive, gray, cream, surface tomentose to smooth
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Poroid, decurrent across the undersides of fronds onto basal structure
ℹ️ Base: Short, branching, stout base from which all fronds emerge, white, compact, toughing with maturity
⚪ Spore print white
🌳 Weakly parasitic and saprobic on oaks roots and stumps, fruits repeatedly at same base year after year, autumn
🍽️ Choice edible when young
🚨 Red List (CR) I
⚕️ Immunomodulator, cyclooxygen inhibition
⚖️ Up to > 20 kg
📏 Fruit body size clusters 10–60 cm or more across
📐 Frond width ~4–10 cm
🔪 Flesh white, firm when young, unchanging when cut, more fibrous with age
🧪 No strong reaction
👃 Pleasant, sweet, mushroomy
👅 Rich, nutty, older parts acrid or bland flavor
🔬 Spores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, inamyloid, 5–7×3.5–5 µm
🔤 Forms large, rosette-like masses of overlapping fan-shaped fronds at oak tree bases