Orange Rough-cap Tooth (Hydnellum aurantiacum)

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Hydnellum aurantiacum is a species of fungus, commonly known as the orange spine or orange hydnellum for its reddish orange or rusty red colored fruit bodies. Like other tooth fungi, it bears a layer of spines rather than gills on the underside of the cap. The species is listed as critically endangered in the United Kingdom. It is inedible.

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Is it poisonous?

We have no record of Orange Rough-cap Tooth being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

Onnia tomentosa
Hydnellum scrobiculatum
Hydnellum ferrugineum
Hydnellum suaveolens

Classification

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Thelephorales
Family: Boletopsidaceae
Genus: Hydnellum
Species: Hydnellum aurantiacum

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