Frondosa
# Frondosa

The Latin word frondosa (meaning "leafy") is the species name of many unrelated fungi, plants, and animals that have a frondose shape.

## Fungi

* Grifola frondosa, a polypore mushroom that grows at the base of oaks, called hen of the woods.
* Tremella frondosa, a jelly fungus known in China

## Plants

* Primula frondosa, a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae, native to the Balkans
* Calceolaria frondosa, a flowering plant endemic to Ecuador
* Gaylussacia frondosa, a flowering plant in the heath family
* Bidens frondosa, a North American annual herb related to sunflowers
* Mussaenda frondosa, a shrub in the family Rubiaceae, also called the dhobi tree.
* Nematolepis frondosa, a shrub endemic to Victoria, Australia
* Muhlenbergia frondosa, a satin grass in genus Muhlenbergia.

## Animals

* Bougainvillia frondosa, a hydrozoan invertebrate
* Rhinopias frondosa, a benthic marine fish in the Scorpionfish family
* Tritonia frondosa, a dendronotid nudibranch (sea slug).
* Cucumaria frondosa, the orange-footed sea cucumber.
* Heterotrypa frondosa, an Ordovician fossil organism among the Paleozoic life of Tennessee
