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Grzybiarz is a mobile app for mushroom foragers. Its on-device AI helps you spot fruiting bodies in the leaf litter and suggests a species from a photo, and the app keeps a private map of your finds. Everything runs on your phone and works fully offline in the forest without signal.

Cauliflower FungusSparassis crispa

edible

Cauliflower FungusSparassis crispa

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Habitat

under pines

under spruce

Season

from August to November

Sparassidaceae

10–50 cm

Season

EndingPast the peak. The season usually lasts until early November.

Today · 22–28 Oct29% of peak

how often reportedpeak

Season

Aug–Nov

Peak

Sep–Oct

Reports

627from Poland

Curve from 627 observations (iNaturalist, Poland), smoothed week by week. It shows when foragers most often report the species, not how much of it grows.

Key features

Fruit body spherical to cushion-shaped, resembling a cauliflower head or a sea sponge, cream to light brown, made of numerous folded, curly lobes. No distinct gills/tubes (the lobes have a smooth surface); flesh whitish, brittle, with an intense nutty smell. Grows at the base of old pines.

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