Hydnum rufescens    Pers.:Fr. 

common name(s) : Terracotta Hedgehog, Reddening Hedgehog Mushroom 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Cantharellales/Hydnaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae  

synonyms: Hydnum repandum-rufescens 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Sarcodon rufescens)  

edibility : edible

photo gallery of  Hydnum rufescens
photo gallery of  Hydnum rufescens potential confusions with  Hydnum rufescens toxicity of Hydnum rufescens genus Hydnum  

The cap is convex, not depressed at the centre, lobed, with an inrolled margin, with sometimes a hole at the centre, orange to red-orange, with a stem often central and slender.

The flesh is white, firm but brittle, turning reddish when exposed to air; its taste is mild then bitter; the odour is pleasant.

The fertile surface is made of orange-yellow to salmon pink, non decurrent spines. The spore print is white.

It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, also sometimes with broad-leaved trees, on a rather calcareous, but also acid soil.

The fruiting period takes place from September to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 8 cm)
  total height approximately 5 cm (between 1.5 and 8 cm)
  width of stem approximately 11 mm (between 5 and 15 mm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Hydnum rufescens is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Hydnum rufescens in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Hydnum rufescens in the forest of Rambouillet



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