– Cap matte, whitish to pale pinkish-cream, sometimes more reddish-yellow.
– Spines decurrent, whitish, fragile.
– Stem white to yellowish-white, usually centrally positioned, sometimes off-center.
– Flesh with a pleasant aroma and somewhat peppery taste.
Hydnoid fungi
Wood Hedgehog agg.
Hydnum repandum s. lat.
NA
Not applicable
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with spruce and pine in mossy conifer woods, but also with beech, oak and birch in decidous forests.
Notes
A popular edible and tasty mushroom. Suitable for all types of cooking. Less suitable for drying as it can become bitter in taste.
Wood Hedgehog agg. is used here as a collective name for several closely related and difficult-to-separate species. All Hydnum-species are edible.
Wood Hedgehog agg. is used here as a collective name for several closely related and difficult-to-separate species. All Hydnum-species are edible.
Similar species
Hydnum rufescens is more slender, spines not decurrent, often with a more reddish-yellow cap color.
Hydnum pallidum/albidum has smaller spores and a white cap color contrasting the pinkish spines.
Albatrellus confluens is similar from above, but has pores, not spines, under the cap.
Hydnum pallidum/albidum has smaller spores and a white cap color contrasting the pinkish spines.
Albatrellus confluens is similar from above, but has pores, not spines, under the cap.
