Bitter Spiny Cap-fungus
Description
Fruit-body flattened funnel-shaped, up to 12 cm high. Cap Ø 4-14 cm, irregularly round, with flattened scales gradually turning erect, velvety-felted, light chestnut, occasionally with pink tinge, scales dark chestnut to black-brown, margin undulate, pale. Spines up to 1 mm, light grey-pink, to purple-brown with white tip.
Stem 3-10 x 1-3.5 cm, longitudinally striped, with dark scales, pale pink-brown to dark brown with grey-green base. Flesh whitish to pink, in the base of the stem blue-green. Smell flour-like.
Spore-print colour brown.
Poisonous.
Occurrence
Near Oak and beech in deciduous woods and in roadsides with old trees on poor sandy soil.
Forming ectomycorrhiza.
Status
Endangered (Red Data List, ed. 1)
Related and/or similar species
- Sarcodon imbricatus, Vulnerable (Red Data List, ed. 1)
- Sarcodon joeides
- Sarcodon lepidus