This year’s wet weather seems to be spawning an unusually sizable harvest for fans of hen of the woods, a ruffled, circular earth-toned mushroom that grows at the base of trees. Also known as maitake, ...
Because of recent rainfall, it appears there will be a good crop of the big hen-of-the-woods and chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms. Chicken-of-the-woods usually grow on trunks of trees. They are often ...