Hen of the woods or maitake mushroom. A frilled fungus with many caps that grows on trees and which is edible when it is very young.
Elk (US: moose). The largest existing animal of the deer kind, inhabiting large portions of Northern Europe and of North America. The American variety is also called the moose.
Alose. Allis shad. A freshwater shad, from a family of white, migratory fish. The shad is a bony, tasty, oily fish similar to herring, which travels up rivers in spring and is found in deep lakes. In France it is found in the Gironde where it is often grilled over vine shoots or stuffed with sorrel, and in the Loire, where it may be stuffed with beurre blanc. The roe is a great delicacy and shad is also used raw in sushi. Members of the family include Allis shad (Alosa alosa) and the smaller twaite shad or gizzard shad (Alosa fallax).
A medium-sized juicy, slightly sweet, eating apple raised in the Netherlands by T Visser of the Instituut voor de Veredeling van Tuinbouwgewassen in Wageningen as a cross between Ingrid Marie and Golden Delicious and introduced commercially in 1972. It has greenish-yellow skin flushed blushed with bright red. It is a popular apple across Europe but doesn't do particularly well in the United Kingdom. It is a mid-season variety which is harvested from early October in South-East England and is at its best from late October to December.
