With striking looks and distinct flavour, Lion’s Mane mushroom (Hericium erinaceus) is a wild fungus that has captivated people for centuries. Inhabiting forests across a wide natural range that spans the northern hemisphere, its flowing golden spines have seen it compared to everything from a pom pom to a monkey's head.  Despite its unmistakable appearance, the most notable thing about this member of the Tooth Fungus family isn’t its looks, but instead it's the remarkable amount of usage it has in traditional medicine. Across Europe and Asia people all independently seemed to discover the benefits of Lion’s Mane as a medicinal mushroom, capable of promoting physical, and especially mental wellbeing. Within some cases, usage reported to date back over a thousand years.