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

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  • Hydnellum regium Mushroom
    Ref No: 7930
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    location: North America
    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: Black or blackish
    normal size: 5-15cm
    cap type: Funnel shaped
    stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
    flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
    spore colour: Light to dark brown
    habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

    Hydnellum regium Harrison Fruit body usually in fused masses. Cap 5-10cm across, fused in groups up to 25cm across and 15cm high from a central stem; violaceous black; surface rough, fibrous, radially striate at margin. Spines on undersurface vinaceous brown. Stem 50-150 x 25-50mm, compound, tapered at base; pinkish cinnamon below. Flesh violaceous at apex, dull tan at base. Odor fragrant, heavy. Taste slightly acrid. Spores subglobose, tuberculate, 4.5-6 x 3.5-4.5µ. Deposit brown. Habitat gregarious under conifers. Found in western North America. Season September-December. Inedible.

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