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

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  • synonyms: Blauer Korkstacheling, Blue Tooth
    Hydnellum caeruleum Mushroom
    Ref No: 7921
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    Hydnellum caeruleum2 Mushroom
    Ref No: 7922
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    location: North America, Europe
    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: Blue, Grey to beige
    normal size: 5-15cm
    cap type: Other
    stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
    spore colour: Light to dark brown
    habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

    Hydnellum caeruleum (Horn. ex Pers.) Karst.Blauer Korkstacheling Blue Tooth. Fruit body solitary or fused with other. Cap 3–11cm across, convex to depressed, velvety to matted, at first white often with a blue margin, at length becoming yellowish- to rusty-brown. Flesh zoned bluish in cap, orange brown in stem. Smell of cucumber when cut. Spines 1–5mm long, bluish at first, then white, finally purplish-brown. Spores brown, irregularly lobed and warted, 5.5–6´3.5–4.5m. Hyphae with clamp connections. Habitat conifer woods. Season autumn. Very rare – confined to Highland pine forest. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

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