{"id":825,"date":"2016-05-15T09:22:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T15:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2016-05-15T09:22:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T15:22:43","slug":"hen-of-the-woods-grifola-frondosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Hen of the Woods <em>(Grifola frondosa)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_826\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hen_of_the_Woods_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-826\" class=\"size-full wp-image-826\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hen_of_the_Woods_01.jpg\" alt=\"Hen of the Woods\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hen_of_the_Woods_01.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hen_of_the_Woods_01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hen_of_the_Woods_01-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Cannon Valley Foraging<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hen of the Woods <em>(Grifola frondosa)<\/em> is one of the most easily recognized polypores of eastern North America. The numerous, overlapping, smoky-brown caps are reminiscent of a fluffed-up chicken, giving this mushroom its common name. It is found in deciduous woodlands, especially woodland edges, usually at the base of a dead or dying tree or stump. It appears in summer and fall as a large cluster of rosettes of numerous small, overlapping, fan-shaped caps rising from a single base. Tender young caps are edible after long, slow cooking.<\/p>\n<p>Hen of the Woods is distinctive in appearance. A closely related species, <em>Grifola umbellata<\/em>, is similar in appearance but the caps are larger and lighter in color, and are attached near the center, not at or near the side. It is much less common.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Fungi\/Hen_of_the_Woods.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Fungi\/Hen_of_the_Woods.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=825\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hen of the Woods (Grifola frondosa) is one of the most easily recognized polypores of eastern North America. The numerous, overlapping, smoky-brown caps are reminiscent of a fluffed-up chicken, giving this mushroom its common name. It is found in deciduous woodlands, especially woodland edges, usually at the base of a dead or dying tree or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[331,330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}