The lobster mushroom is a wild edible mushroom that grows in the temperate forests of North America.
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The lobster mushroom has a short collecting season, so it is usually dried to be sold throughout the year.
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The lobster mushroom results from the infection of a host mushroom, most often Russula brevipes, by the fungus Hypomyces lactifluorum.
The relationship between the two species is parasitic: the DNA of the host, Russula brevipes, declines as the infection progresses and its metabolic composition changes.