British fungi - Keys

The genus Hericium

1	Mature spines > 3 cm long, hanging; usually high on beech, recorded once on oak	erinaceum
	Mature spines < 3 cm long	2
2(1)	Lobed; upper surface strigose; on beech	cirrhatum
	Whole fruit body consisting of a mass of intertwined branches with short comb-like spines along their length; on beech	coralloides

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