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Hydnellum pineticola.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

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  • Hydnellum pineticola Mushroom
    Ref No: 7929
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    location: North America
    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: Brown, Grey to beige
    normal size: 5-15cm
    cap type: Funnel shaped
    stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
    flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged, Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
    spore colour: Light to dark brown
    habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

    Hydnellum pineticola Harrison Fruit body single to joined in masses. Cap 5-15cm across; purplish cinnamon to vinaceous, then dark brown, often with pink droplets in wet weather, bruising blackish. Spines on undersurface dull brown, tips paler. Stem 25-50 x 10-25mm, bulbous; paler than cap; woolly-felted. Flesh firm, tough; dark cinnamon in cap. Odor farinaceous. Spores subglobose, tuberculate, 4.5-6 x 4-5µ. Deposit dull brown. Habitat under pine on sandy soils. Found in Canada and Michigan. Season August-October. Inedible.

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