Hydnellum suaveolens    (Scop.:Fr.) P. Karst. 



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

synonyms: Calodon suaveolens 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Colodon suaveolens, Hydnum suaveolens, Phaeodon suaveolens)  

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with Hydnellum suaveolens toxicity of Hydnellum suaveolens genus Hydnellum  

The fruiting body is funnel-shaped, very thin and hairy, brown-black, not banded, with a lilac stem.

The flesh is banded with layers of white and blue; the odour is of aniseed.

The fertile surface is made of lilac grey to blue grey spines. The spore print is brown.

It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 2 cm (between 0 and 4 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Hydnellum suaveolens is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .



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