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

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  • Hydnellum mirabile Mushroom
    Ref No: 7926
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    location: North America, Europe
    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: Brown
    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 mirabile (Fr.) Karsten Fruit body 5-15cm across. Cap flattened; dull brownish white to dark brown, margin dirty yellow, darker where bruised; weeping a dark brown fluid when young; rough or roughly hairy. Spines on undersurface light brown with paler tips. Stem 10-50 x 10-25mm, tapered below; pale brown with a darker brown tomentum at base. Flesh pallid to brownish. Odor mealy. Spores subglobose, tuberculate, 5-7 x 4.5-6µ. Deposit buff brown. Habitat solitary to clustered in mixed woods. Found in Canada across to the Pacific Northwest and in Europe. Season August-November. Inedible.

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