Illuding Tooth

– Cap smooth when young, yellow-brown with a whitish-pink tone most evident along the margin, with age distinctly yellow-brown and cracking into a grid-like scaly pattern from the centre.
– Spines decurrent, whitish when young, becoming brown with age.
– Stem the same colour as the cap, often blue-grey to grey-green towards the tapering stem base.
– Flesh whitish, becoming yellow-brown with age, often blue-green in the stem base, smell mealy, taste mealy to bitter.

Grows with pine (Pinus) in open, older pine forest on calcareous soil, rare.

Belongs to a species complex formerly called Sarcodon glaucopus s.lat., inedible but valuable conservation species in older coniferous forest of high conservation value.