Hydnellum caeruleum    (Hornem.) P. Karst. 

common name(s) : Blue Tooth 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Thelephorales/Bankeraceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae  
(unconfirmed synonyms: Hydnum caeruleum, Calodon caeruleum)  

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with Hydnellum caeruleum toxicity of Hydnellum caeruleum genus Hydnellum  

The fruiting body is top-shoped, solitary or fused with others, sky blue to blackish blue, without concentrical bands, with a brown stem.

The flesh is banded with blue and brown; the odour is cucumber-like.

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

It grows on the ground, in coniferous or broad-leaved woods, on a rather calcareous soil, with spruce, pine, beech.

The fruiting period takes place from August to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 12 cm)
  total height approximately 8 cm (between 5 and 12 cm)
  width of stem approximately 20 mm (between 10 and 30 mm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

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



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