Hydnellum aurantiacum (Batsch:Fr.) P. Karst. |
common name(s) : Orange Tooth
synonyms: Calodon aurantiacum
edibility : inedible
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The fruiting body is top-shaped, whitish orange to brownish, not banded, with cinnamon brown to brown-orange stem. The flesh is orange to pale yellow; the odour is mealy or of bitter almonds. The fertile surface is made of whitish grey then orange, lighter-tipped spines. The spore print is brown.It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, on a rather calcareous soil, with spruce, fir. The fruiting period takes place from August to October.
Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet Hydnellum aurantiacum is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
page updated on 14/01/18 |