Greenfoot Tooth

– Cap smooth, grey-brown with a faint pink-violet tone, when older with irregular cracks that expose the pale flesh.
– Spines decurrent, whitish when young, becoming brown with age.
– Stem the same colour as the cap, sometimes faintly blue-green towards the tapering base.
– Flesh whitish, rarely blue-green in the stem base, smell sour-mealy, taste mild with a bitter aftertaste.
– Cap and stem often develop brown to lilac-brown spots with age and when handled.

Grows with spruce Picea in older coniferous forest, often in herb-rich spruce forest on moist, calcareous soil, rare.

Part of the species complex formerly called Sarcodon glaucopus s.lat. and therefore often confused with similar species found in older coniferous forests of high conservation value.