Lion's Mane is a mushroom that grows on old or dead trees (mainly in beech and oak forests). It occurs naturally in many regions of the world. It is widespread in the mountainous areas of Asia, in northern parts of America and in many parts of Europe, and is especially abundant in central and southern France.

Hericium erinaceus usually has a rounded fruiting body with spines that all grow from the same point and hang down in a cascade, like a mop head. It is white or pale yellowish-brown, darkening with age, and the fruiting body is attached to the substrate by a very short, wide stipe. The fruiting bodies are annual, but they can reappear in the same place on a tree for several years. The whole fruiting body can be up to 30 cm in diameter, although 15 to 20 cm is more typical. The spines of Hericium erinaceus have pointed tips and are 1 to 5 cm long.

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• Hifas da Terra is developing new Lion's Mane-based ingredients within the Nutrigen 4.0 project, which aims to achieve automated, continuous production through state-of-the-art bioreactor cultivation.
• A study published by Hifas da Terra and carried out by our R&D department successfully fractionated H. erinaceus extract using eco-friendly solvents.
• Hifas da Terra's extensive mycological collection (Hifas Mycological Bank) holds its own strains isolated from the Iberian Peninsula.

• Hericium, the genus name, means ‘belonging to a hedgehog’, a reference to the spiny fertile surfaces of the mushrooms of this genus. As is often the case with the type species of a genus, the specific epithet erinaceus means the same as the genus name: like a hedgehog.