Interesing Toothed Fungi - Hydnum repandum

While waiting for someone who was attending a hospital appointment I had the opportunity to visit the "Henry Somerset Orchid Conservation Area". It was much better than sitting in a waiting room. It's late winter here and I'd hoped to find some early flowering native orchids. I did in fact find a couple but they had not fully opened. However I did come across an unusual fungi species that I'd not seen before. It is Hydnum repandum. It does not have gills on the underside like many fungi species and neither does it have pores. Rather, the underside is covered in soft, brittle spines. These spines are the fertile tissue where the spores are produced and released.

The specimen in the photo was only around 25 to 30mm in diameter. Apparent they can get to 100mm.

I did post another species with similar spines a couple of weeks ago. That one was called Pseudohydnum (in other words False Hydnum) so it was obviously named after the above Genus.

Warning: The notes and photos on this blog are simply my personal observations. I am not a mycologist. This is not a guide to edible or inedible fungi.

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Here is a shot of Hydnum repandum showing the tooth like spines.

...and next is a shot from above. It has a slightly conical form narrowing down towards the stype.

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