Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Russulales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Hericium erinaceum
 
   
   
　Author：

Basionym: Hydnum erinaceae Bull., Herb. France Pl. 34. 1789.

Hericium commune Rogues., Hist. Champ. Comest. Ven. 47. 1832.

Hericium erinaceum (Bull. : Fr.) Pers., Mycol. Eur. 2: 153. 1825.

Steccheyinum quercinum S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Br. Pl. 1: 651. 1821.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Fruit body oval to roundish solid or headlike mass, 5-20 cm tall and across, white, becoming yellowish, long, hanging beardlike spines; stipe stout, tough. Hymenium spine-like 1-5 cm long, smooth. Spore print white, spores round, hyaline, smooth, 5-7 × 5-6 μm, I+. Cystidia not seen but gloeoplerous hyphae ends in the hymenium, 30-38 × 4-8 μm. Basidia clavate, 18-22 × 5-6 μm, with 4 sterigmata and basal clamp. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae 3-6 μm across, hyphae septa with clamp.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Miaoli: Tahu, 10 Jan. 1996, C.Y. Tseng, CWN 01366 (TNM F4728).
 
 
 
　Habitat： Lignicolous. On dead standing hardwood.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Europe, North America, Japan, China, and Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Bon, M. 1987; Imazeki, R. and Hong, T. 1989; Smith, AH. et al. 1981.
   
   
   
　Provided：

W. N. Chou
 
 
　Note： This species is edible and delicious. It has long been commercially cultivated in Taiwan.