Hericium erinaceus growing out of a beech totem
The species has retained the same Latin binomial given to it in 1797 by some person named Persoon--Christiaan Hendrik Persoon. It was first scientifically described in 1781 by Jean Baptiste François Bulliard, who gave it the name Hydnum erinaceus because teeth
In a shocking display of sympathetic magic, the spines of the mushroom look (superficially) like the dendritic spines on neurons, which the mushroom supposedly helps generate by stimulating brain-derived neurotrophic factor
That seems just too pat
But they are tasty, so there's that
First lion's mane of the year
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