Hydnellum geogenium    (Fr.) Banker 



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

synonyms: Calodon geogenium 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Colodon geogenium, Hydnum geogenium, Hydnum sulphureum, Calodon sulphureus)  

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with Hydnellum geogenium toxicity of Hydnellum geogenium genus Hydnellum  

The fruiting body is a assembly of irregular caps, fused or grouped together, sulphur-yellow, then olive, not banded, with a yellowish stem.

The flesh is yellow then olive green; the odour is mealy.

The fertile surface is made of yellow then yellow-brown spines. The spore print is brown.

It grows on the ground, on sandy soils, in the mountains, on a rather calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from August to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 6 cm (between 1 and 14 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Hydnellum geogenium is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is very rare, more generally speaking .



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