.jpg "The growths of the maitake mushroom as form that known as a cluster.")
Common name: King of Mushroom, Sulphur Shelf
Binomial name: Grifola frondosa
Class: Homobasidiomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Meripilaceae
General characteristics of maitake mushroom
It was a fungus that has been called "Hen of the wood", because it looks like a mother hen. The growths of the Maitake mushroom (or Grifola frondosa) as form that known as a cluster. A look at like the leaves of it and has an expression of a different color. It is with white and dark brown until gray. The expression of color, it is based on the factors of light. This means the mushrooms will receive a little or much light. The leaves of the mushroom will have gradient the intensity from end of leaf to its base as a light color to dark color.
The structures of maitake mushroom
The structures of maitake mushroom in the sporulation has look like several holes. This makes mushroom is a group of polypores. The nature of hole, It will looks like a hole next to each other and have very small size. We cannot see the hole clearly. The flowers are composed base that a plump and short and ramification. Each branch will have a large number of sub mushrooms. This makes it look like a cluster.
