Hydnellum caeruleum (Hornem.) P. Karst. |
common name(s) : Blue Tooth
edibility : inedible
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The fruiting body is top-shoped, solitary or fused with others, sky blue to blackish blue, without concentrical bands, with a brown stem. The flesh is banded with blue and brown; the odour is cucumber-like. The fertile surface is made of blue-grey to purple brown spines. The spore print is brown.It grows on the ground, in coniferous or broad-leaved woods, on a rather calcareous soil, with spruce, pine, beech. The fruiting period takes place from August to December.
Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet Hydnellum caeruleum is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
page updated on 14/01/18 |