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a mushroom that grows in clusters big enough to need their own carry permit
means Maitake is an edible, frilly, cluster-forming mushroom (Grifola frondosa) prized in cooking and traditional medicine, often called hen-of-the-woods.
from From Japanese 舞茸 — mai ("dance") plus take ("mushroom"), literally "dancing mushroom." The popular story is that foragers danced for joy on finding such a prize; whether the name celebrates the finder's delight or the way the overlapping fronds seem to ruffle like swirling skirts, the "dance" image is genuinely baked into the word.
- name means
- Japanese for dancing mushroom
- hen of woods
- its English name, for feathered frilly look
- weight record
- clusters can exceed 100 pounds
- old trees
- favors aging oak stumps and bases
- prized hunt
- foragers once kept locations secret as treasure
maitake mushroom — grifola frondosa, cultivated commercially in japan since the 1970s and now globally, valued for medicinal beta-glucans
maitake gold md — proprietary extract brand developed by stamets labs, used in clinical studies for immune support since the 1990s