- Cap convex to expanded, grey-brown, with coarse dark brown scales, with the cap margin remaining inrolled for a long time.
- Spines decurrent, greyish-white, soon brown from the spores.
- Stem whitish-grey to brownish, paler above nearest the spines.
- Flesh whitish, sometimes darker in the stem base and with age.
- Taste mild and smell somewhat spicy.
Hydnoid fungi
Scaly Tooth
Sarcodon squamosus
NT
Near threatened
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with pine in pine forest and mixed coniferous forest throughout the Nordic region.
Notes
Edible when young, considered somewhat better than Sarcodon imbricatus. Can be used marinated or pickled like herring.
Similar species
Sarcodon imbricatus grows with spruce, has a more deeply depressed cap centre and somewhat darker flesh.
Hydnellum lundellii has a reddish-brown cap and a sharply burning taste, inedible.
Hydnellum glaucopus, Hydnellum illudens and Hydnellum scabrosum often have blue-green flesh in the stem base, inedible.
Hydnellum lundellii has a reddish-brown cap and a sharply burning taste, inedible.
Hydnellum glaucopus, Hydnellum illudens and Hydnellum scabrosum often have blue-green flesh in the stem base, inedible.
