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