Family: Bankeraceae
Hydnellum caeruleum
(Hornem.) P. Karst.
Blue tooth
Hydnellum caeruleum | Quartz Creek Campground
KEY ID FEATURES
- Toothed fungus growing solitary or in small groups with conifers.
- Hard "woody" fruit bodies, texture can be comparable to cork.
- Dingy white and orangish flesh with blueish tones, especially when young. Becoming "woody" brown in age. Stip can be shades of orange. Colors "dirty" or mute in age.
- Does NOT exude red or orange droplets.
- Taste mild.
NUTRITIONAL STRATEGY: Mycorrhizal
SPORE PRINT: Brown
EDIBILITY: Inedible
SIMILAR SPECIES: Hydnellum aurantiacum
COLLECTIONS
- COLLECTION ID: AKFF-094-14
- LOCATION: Quartz Creek Campground
- DATE: 27-Aug-14
- NOTES: Very young, bluish-gray tomentose cap, grayish-blue spines, orangish stipe flesh, bluish and orange cap flesh. Farinaceous odor, taste mild. Growing under spruce.
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