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Coral Hedgehog

Posted by Amanda Tucker,
North Country explorer from Castleton, Vermont
October 22, 2016

I was out hiking this weekend and it was the first time it has felt cold to me in a while. Walking along the Stone Valley trail I did not expect to see any fruiting bodies of fungi left. I thought the cold would have made the fungi shut all nutrients off to the fruiting body. However, the fungi called the coral hedgehog was not ready for winter yet. This is one of my favorite mushrooms because it looks like icicles and makes me think of winter.

Hericium americanum