– Cap smooth when young, yellow-brown, becoming scaly and cracked with age, with coarse, fibrous scales.
– Spines decurrent, whitish when young, turning brownish with age, the tips remaining white for a long time.
– Stem concolorous with the cap, often blue-gray to gray-green towards the narrowing stem base.
– Flesh with a characteristic bitter-almond odor that may sometimes disappear or be difficult to detect, and the taste is very bitter.
Hydnoid fungi
Finnish Tooth
Hydnellum fennicum
EN
Endangered
Inedible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows in pine and spruce forests on calcareous soils, often in mossy and humid sites in older calcareous coniferous forests.
Similar species
Hydnellum lundelli is copper-red to reddish-brown and smells of cucumber or leather. Hydnellum illudens may be similar in color but is usually larger and has a farinaceous odor and taste.
