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Scientific Name:Grifola frondosa
Common Name(s): Hen of the Woods
Edible: yes
Medicinal: no
pugslee 16 May, 2011
Cautions: Many gilled mushrooms grow in large clumps-remember that hen-of-the-woods is a pore fungus.
This mushroom has no poisonous look-alikes, but there are some similar species of pore fungi that are tough and inedible. If what you have tastes leathery or otherwise unpleasant, you probably didn't pick a hen-of-the-woods