Family: Bankeraceae
Hydnellum regium
K.A. Harrison
Bear poop fungus
KEY ID FEATURES
- Small-to-large toothed fungus growing solitary or in clusters with conifers.
- Dark blueish-black "woody" fruit bodies, texture can be comparable to cork.
- Cap flesh dark, body through stipe flesh pale-to-orange.
- Does NOT exude red or orange droplets.
NUTRITIONAL STRATEGY: Mycorrhizal
SPORE PRINT: Brown
EDIBILITY: Inedible
SIMILAR SPECIES: Hydnellum caeruleum
COLLECTIONS
- COLLECTION ID: AKFF-158-14
- LOCATION: Haystack Trail, Cordova
- DATE: 30-Aug-14
- NOTES: Small-to-large clusters of a bluish-black Hydnellum. Bluish-gray young spines, black older. Flesh black in cap, pale orangish in middle and orangish in stipe; somewhat brittle but tough overall. Odor strongly farinaceous, taste sweetly farinaceous. Under spruce and hemlock.
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- COLLECTION ID: AKFF-176-14
- LOCATION: Pipeline Lakes Trail, Cordova
- DATE: 31-Aug-14
- NOTES: Large overlapping caps, orange flesh. Under spruce and hemlock.
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