What is the Bear’s Head Tooth Mushroom?

The Bear’s Head Tooth Mushroom is among the wildest and most exotic edible fungi in the world. This specie is harder to find, due to the isolation areas where it grows. Basically, this fungus is found on toothed clumps, hardwoods and stumps. The mushroom is more complexly called bear’s head tooth or, in a scientific way, hericium coralloides, which is found in the complex family of fungi. This species is saprophytic and is usually found on decaying deciduous logs, but it may occasionally be found on conifer logs or on living deciduous trees.  Like almost all fungi, the part that we see is only a small part of a much larger organism.  Most of a fungus is hidden in the ground, in dead logs, or even in living trees as a system of root-like fibers called mycelium.  The mushroom that we see on the surface only occurs when the larger fungus is ready to reproduce by sending microscopic spores into the wind.  Essentially a mushroom is a fruiting body produced by the large hidden mass of mycelium for the purpose of reproduction.

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