- Cap convex to expanded, with a depressed centre, grey-brown, with coarse dark brown upward-pointing scales.
- Spines decurrent, greyish-white, soon brown from the spores.
- Stem central, greyish-white to brownish.
- Flesh greyish-white in young specimens, more grey-brown in older ones and with a somewhat astringent taste and sour smell.
Hydnoid fungi
Shingled Hedgehog
Sarcodon imbricatus
NT
Near threatened
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with spruce in coniferous forest throughout the Nordic region.
Similar species
Sarcodon squamosus does not have as deeply depressed a cap centre, has paler flesh and grows with pine, edible.
Hydnellum lundellii has a reddish-brown cap, taste at first mild, then sharply burning, inedible.
Hydnellum glaucopus has a smoother cap, often blue-green flesh in the stem base, inedible.
Hydnellum illudens has a cap cracked into a net-like pattern, often blue-green flesh in the stem base, inedible.
Hydnellum lundellii has a reddish-brown cap, taste at first mild, then sharply burning, inedible.
Hydnellum glaucopus has a smoother cap, often blue-green flesh in the stem base, inedible.
Hydnellum illudens has a cap cracked into a net-like pattern, often blue-green flesh in the stem base, inedible.
