Lion's Mane Mushroom, Bearded Tooth Mushroom, Hedgehog Mushroom, Satyr's Beard, Hericium erinaceus

I have seen on a fallen beech trunk something that looks like a fungus. An amazing white fungus.

And so it is!

It is Hericium erinaceus, a mushroom with a spectacular appearance, but also with fascinating names:

This fungus also is called lion's mane mushroom, monkey head mushroom, bearded tooth mushroom, satyr's beard, bearded hedgehog mushroom, pom pom mushroom, or bearded tooth fungus.

It is an edible mushroom belonging to the tooth fungus group. Native to North America, Europe and Asia.

However, these creatures, though they stick to humans like mushrooms, are not mushrooms. It's Bety and Mircea. And Hera, it certainly appears.

White forest corals...that make us think about the heat and waves of the sea. Unfortunately, for me, I live far away from the sea, and these mushrooms are welcome when I meet them.

However, with a little attention and patience, we can all find inside us, the great sea, on the waters of which our destiny is shaken, led by one illusion or another, until its complete disintegration. But let's get back to our ... terrestrial waters.

Hericium erinaceus can be mistaken for other species of Hericium, which are all popular edibles that grow across the same range. In the wild, these mushrooms are common during late summer and fall on hardwoods.

It is, also, an medicinal mushroom.
Hericium is an immunomodulator that is useful for many conditions where immunity is compromised.

In traditional medicine, lion’s mane mushroom is used for promoting digestive health, improving stomach and liver function, liver protection.

In modern clinical use, lion’s mane mushroom is known as a dietary supplement based on positive human clinical studies for brain health, memory, and mood. The aqueous preparation of Hericum erinaceus had neurotrophic but not neuroprotective activities.

A wonderful life for each of us!


I go through the forests, mountains, hills, fields, and waters to understand the living world and to create a living mind.

I'm just a man who is on passing on this living earth.

A living earth that is closer to death, because of us, of the human being. I spend all my time in nature, enjoying its show. All this time I try to make a video encyclopedia with flora and fauna that I encounter on this living earth. Sometimes with human fauna ...

I meet wild mushrooms, medicinal mushrooms, edible mushrooms, dead mushrooms, toxic mushrooms, magic mushrooms. Every wild mushroom with its mystery and story. The living earth is still amazing. I meet plants, flowers, trees, shrubs, grass, leaves fallen on the living land, leaves fallen on the dead land, leaves that dance in our thoughts and soul. I meet insects, invertebrates of all kinds, butterflies, worms, larvae, birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians...

But I also encounter deforested forests, hunters, poachers, animals killed, tormented, in a suffering that words can not express. I also meet people who think it is good that they behave like this.

I stretch my hand and save an insect from the drowning. But this people trample under foot my hand. They make their choice. I make my choice.

Sometimes I manage to correctly identify the species of living beings: mushrooms, plants, animals, insects. Sometimes not. What I know is much less than what I do not know. I am just a man in front of a knowledge that surpasses me, overcomes us.

I do not know enough English yet to make my clips more attractive. But I'm learning...A wonderful life, I wish you all!