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Auriscalpium vulgare.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Earpick Fungus, Hydne cure-oreille, Ohrlöffelpilz, Tobozgereben
Auriscalpium vulgare Mushroom
Ref No: 7103
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Brown
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on plant material/manure

Auriscalpium vulgare S. F. Gray syn. Hydnum auriscalpium L. Earpick Fungus, Hydne cure-oreille, Ohrlöffelpilz, Tobozgereben, Oorlepelzwam. Cap 1–2cm across, kidney-shaped, thin and leathery, covered with yellow-brown to chestnut or blackish hairs. Stem 10–140´1–2mm, joined laterally to the cap, swollen towards the base, bristly, dark brown to blackish. Spines 1–3mm long, dark flesh-colour to brown at first becoming paler as they are dusted with the ripening spores. Spores white, subglobose to broadly ovate, minutely spinulose, amyloid, 4.5–5.5 x 3.5–4.5µ. Habitat on buried decaying pine cones. Season all year. Occasional. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

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Yves Peeters (Belgium) - 17 January 2015

Auriscalpium vulgare
Dušan Sadikovic (Yugoslavia) - 26 February 2013

25 November 2012. Gradac,Serbia; Mycological Society of Niš
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Trevor Liddle (United Kingdom) - 10 October 2010

9th October, Minley, Hampshire, UK
Auriscalpium vulgare
Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 26 July 2010

Lasy Oliwskie Gdañsk.Poland
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Lorand Bartho (Hungary) - 24 October 2008

Auriscalpium vulgare
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