Scotland's rare tooth fungi: - Plantlife

BACK FROM THE BRINK MANAGEMENT SERIESHydnellum speciesThe flesh is tough and the caps often fusetogether incorporating surrounding vegetationand debris; there are multiple stipes beneath.Caps have brownish teeth and brown spores.The cap can be thick or thin and whilststarting very pale, becomes some shade ofbrown, with blue, orange or pink tints in somespecies.The caps of thin-fleshed species areoften concentrically zoned.The cut flesh itselfis often zoned and in some species containsbright blue or orange colours. In dampweather fresh fruit bodies of some speciesproduce blood red droplets (guttules).There isno strong spicy smell when dried.Hydnellum peckii © Liz Holden Hydnellum requiring further taxonomicinvestigation to define exact species © Liz Holden Hydnellum caeruleum © Liz Holden6