Fruiting body cream-colored, becoming more ochreous with age. It is irregular and bracket-like in shape, with a warty upper surface and short sterile spines. The fertile hymenium is located on the undersurface, spread over pendulous conical spines. It is sessile and attached laterally. The flesh is pallid cream, elastic and soft. Spore print white.
Microscopic Features: Spores are subglobose, smooth, measuring 3.5-4.5 x 3-3.5 µm, and exhibit amyloid properties.
Hericium cirrhatum on the www.first-nature.com web site.
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