Smooth glabrose cap. Quercus nearby
Ordway Swisher. Pinus & Quercus dominating forest
Found in Quercus dominated forest in leaf litter. Darker brown gills with lighter red toned cap.
Found in Pinus dominated forest. Tissue turned from white to darker yellow. photos of dried specimen.
Pinus dominating at Ordway Swisher, sandy soil.
Quercus & Pinus nearby. No odor, dry cap with no purple pigment.
slight acrid taste, but only after a long time
with oak and hickory,
directly on soil under litter - in silty soil where runoff from the road was running into a ravine.
odor slight but then becoming rubbery and mealy
viscid covering on caps and on stalks, in oak-dominated woodland, totally white and not discoloring
single fruiting body near type locality
two species of Hydnum are known from this region. macroscopically this collection matches best with Hydnum aerostatisporum
Unburned conifer plot. Pinus & quercus nearby. Hyaline & ellipsoid smooth spores!