Hydnellum concrescens    (Pers.) Banker 

common name(s) : Zoned Tooth 

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

synonyms: Hydnellum zonatum, Hydnellum velutinium-zonatum, Calodon zonatum 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Hydnum zonatum)  

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with Hydnellum concrescens toxicity of Hydnellum concrescens genus Hydnellum  

The fruiting body is white-pink cream to dark brown, banded, with a felty, brown stem.

the odour is mealy.

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

It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods.

The fruiting period takes place from September to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 7 cm)
  total height approximately 3 cm (between 0.5 and 10 cm)
  width of stem approximately 6 mm (between 2 and 10 mm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

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



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