Hydnellum ferrugineum    (Fr.:Fr.) P. Karst. 

common name(s) : Mealy Tooth 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Thelephorales/Bankeraceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae  

synonyms: Calodon ferrugineum 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Colodon ferrugineum, Hydnum ferrugineum)  

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Hydnellum ferrugineum
photo gallery of Hydnellum ferrugineum potential confusions with Hydnellum ferrugineum toxicity of Hydnellum ferrugineum genus Hydnellum  

The fruiting body is top-shaped then cup-shaped, white to orange brownish, not banded, with a russed stem.

The flesh is dull orange; its taste is pleasant; the odour is mealy.

The fertile surface is made of whitish then rusty, white-tipped spines. The spore print is brown.

It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)
  total height approximately 3.5 cm (between 1.5 and 6 cm)
  width of stem approximately 20 mm (between 5 and 30 mm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Hydnellum ferrugineum is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Hydnellum ferrugineum in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Hydnellum ferrugineum in the forest of Rambouillet



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