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The lion’s mane mushroom is one of the wildest-looking mushrooms in the whole forest! Instead of having a cap and stem, it is covered in long, white, shaggy strings that hang down and look just like a lion’s fluffy mane. Some people think it looks like a white pom-pom or a fluffy beard.

Lion’s mane mushrooms grow on the sides of old hardwood trees, especially oak and maple trees. They can grow to be as big as a basketball! Lion’s mane starts out bright white and fluffy, but as it gets older, it slowly turns yellow and then brown.