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Coral tooth fungus

Hericium coralloides · Tooth fungi (Hericium)

Special mushroom – look, don’t pick Red List: Threatened (extent unknown) (G)
Coral tooth fungus
📷 Morgan Cantrell, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

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Edible, but rare (Red List Germany: G – threatened, extent unknown). It indicates valuable forests rich in dead wood. Please leave it standing and take photos.

Recognise it safely – what matters

  1. White and branched like coral
  2. Short spines hang along the branches
  3. On dead broadleaf wood, mostly beech

Features

Cap
No cap: pure white, much-branched, coral-like fruit body, 10–30 cm, cream-yellow with age.
Underside
Short spines (0.5–1.5 cm) hanging in rows from the branches like icicles.
Stem
Short common base on the wood from which the branches fork.
Flesh
White, soft and brittle.
Smell
Mild.
Spore print
White.

Season

Habitat

On fallen and standing dead wood of broadleaf trees, mainly beech, in near-natural forests with plenty of thick dead wood.

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Risk of confusion

Hericium flagellum Very similar, but on silver fir and with longer spines at the branch tips. Lion's mane A compact ball without branches, with long spines.

Never identify mushrooms by pictures or an app alone. When in doubt, ask a mushroom expert – and only pick what you know for sure.

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