Hydnellum scrobiculatum    (Fr.) P. Karst. 

common name(s) : Ridged Tooth 

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

synonyms: Hydnum scrobiculatum, Hydnellum velutinum-scrobiculatum 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Hydnellum ferrugineum-scrobiculatum, Hydnum velutinum-scrobiculatum)  

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with  Hydnellum scrobiculatum toxicity of Hydnellum scrobiculatum genus Hydnellum  

The fruiting body is funnel-shaped, fused or grouped, white to orange brownish, not banded, with a brownish stem.

The flesh is brownish; the odour is of beef broth, or mealy when cut.

The fertile surface is made of whitish to reddish brown spines. The spore print is brown.

It grows on the ground, in coniferous or broad-leaved woods, with spruce, pine, beech, oaks.

The fruiting period takes place from August to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 8 cm)
  total height approximately 3 cm (between 1 and 6.5 cm)
  width of stem approximately 6 mm (between 2 and 10 mm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Hydnellum scrobiculatum is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Hydnellum scrobiculatum in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Hydnellum scrobiculatum in the forest of Rambouillet



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