Bear’s Head

AT A GLANCECommon Name: Bear’s HeadScientific Name: Hericium abietisCategory: FungiSubcategory: Tooth FungiSize: Fruiting body width 15 to 35 cm (6 to 14 in); height 15 to 30 cm (6 to 12 in)Weight: 500 to 2,500 g (1.1 to 5.5 lb); record clusters can exceed 5 kg...

Bear’s Head Tooth

OverviewThe Bear’s Head Tooth (Hericium americanum), heralded among wild mushroom connoisseurs as one of the most magnificent and delicious edible fungi in North America, is a breathtaking wood-decay tooth fungus in the family Hericiaceae. Emerging like an...