date:Aug 21, 2018
hroom. Its taste is also unique and often compared to seafood.
How to recognize it: Beech trees are frequent hosts. Another identifying characteristic is that it tends to grow its spines from one group rather than from branches. It can also grow very high in the trees, as much as 40 feet up the trunk.
Maitake mushrooms: Also known as hen of the woods, rams or sheeps head, maitake mushrooms (Grifola frondosa) grow at the base of hardwood trees such as oaks. It is prolific in the Northeast but