MushroomBot<p>Hericium abietis</p><p><a href="https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Hericium_abietis.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mushroomexpert.com/Hericium_ab</span><span class="invisible">ietis.html</span></a></p><p>Ecology: Saprobic and parasitic on the wood of conifers (including firs, Douglas-fir, and hemlock); growing alone; fall and winter; distributed from northern California to Idaho and Alaska. The illustrated and described collection is from Oregon.</p><p>Fruiting Body: 10-30+ cm across; consisting of tightly packed branches arising from a hidden, knob-like mass that is attached to the wood; branches 2-3 cm thick, smooth, adorned with fleshy spines; spines 0.5-1 cm long, up to 1 mm wide, white when fresh and young, bruising faintly brownish and eventually discoloring yellowish to brownish overall.</p><p>Flesh: White; not changing when sliced.</p><p>Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.</p><p>Spore Print: White.</p><p>Microscopic Features: Spores 4-5 x 4-4.5 m; subglobose; smooth or minutely roughened; uniguttulate in KOH; amyloid. Hymenial cystidia 30-45 x 3-4 m; cylindric; flexuous; apices rounded or subclavate; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Hyphal system dimitic; gloeoplerous hyphae present; clamp connections present.</p><p><a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mycology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mycology</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/shrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/sporespondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sporespondence</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/floraspondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floraspondence</span></a></p>