Hydnum repandum L.:Fr. |
The cap is convex, then top-shaped or funnel-shaped, lobed, irregular when mature, with an margin inrolled a long time, cream whitish, yellowish to reddish, with a stem often eccentric, slightly deformed, white to ochre, staining yellow in the bruises especially close to the base. The flesh is white, firm but brittle, turning reddish when exposed to air; its taste is mild to bitter; the odour is pleasant. The fertile surface is made of whitish, slightly decurrent, dense, easily detached spines. The spore print is white.It grows on the ground, in humid deciduous woods but also with conifers, in small troops until the first frosts, on a rather calcareous, but also acid soil, mostly with beech, also with oaks, chestnut trees, hazel. The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet Hydnum repandum is frequent and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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