Evaluation of the edibility of hydnellum odorous
These mushrooms have no culinary value, they are inedible.
The medicinal properties of odorant hydnellum
These are antioxidant mushrooms. In 2006, studies were carried out and the antioxidant activity of odorant hydnellum was revealed. These mushrooms contain substances that have the same activity as α-tocopherol.
Related species
Hydnellum Peka is an inedible type of mushroom. It is also called devilish hedgehog and bleeding tooth. It looks delicious, like chewing gum with drops of raspberry syrup. This fluid forms inside the fruiting body and oozes out of the pores. The surface of the fruiting body is white, later it may turn beige or brown. The diameter of the mushroom is 5-10 centimeters.
Hydnellum Peka can be found in coniferous forests. They grow in North America and Europe. These mushrooms have antibacterial properties. This is a special mushroom - it can feed not only on juices from the soil, but also on insects that fall on the surface of the fruit body.
Gidnellum blue is an inedible mushroom. The hat is large - its diameter can reach 20 centimeters, and its height reaches 12 centimeters. Above the hat is light blue, and the lower part is darker. The cap has small spines, the length of which is about 4 millimeters. The surface of the mushroom is uneven and bumpy, slightly velvety. The leg is short, half immersed in the moss. The color of the leg is brown. The pulp is without a special smell, tough in consistency.
Gidnellum blue prefers to grow in pine forests located in the northern part of the European hemisphere. They like to settle in sunny places with white moss. Almost always, these mushrooms grow singly, only sometimes they gather in small groups. Fruiting is observed from July to September.
Fellinus grape: is it possible to eat, where it grows, what it looks like, photo
T. V. Svetlova, I. V. Zmitrovich
Fruit bodies are annual or hibernating, hard or corky leathery when fresh, hard, woody when dry. At the beginning of development, they look like small pubescent tubercles, which gradually grow, merge and form fruit bodies widespread along the substrate, often with low or stepped false caps. The litter is thin, densely corky, reddish-brown or rusty-brown, blackening under the action of KOH. The edge is sterile, tomentose-clumpy, ridge-shaped, lighter than the tubular part. The surface of the hymenophore has a silky sheen, reddish brown, reddish, chestnut or chocolate brown, sometimes with a pinkish or lilac tint. The tubules are single-layered or indistinct, straight or oblique, sometimes open, up to 10 mm long. The pores are small, 7-9 by 1 mm, rounded or rounded-angular, entire.
It grows on valezh of conifers, more often on spruce, in old-growth, little-exploited forests. Causes white rot. Widespread, but rare.
f.289 Fuscoporia ferruginosa (syn. Phellinus ferruginosus) - Rusty phuscoporia: fruiting bodies on a birch tree
Distributed in Eurasia and North America, in Russia - from the European part to the Far East. It occurs mainly in the zone of deciduous forests on stumps, dead trunks and dead branches of many deciduous trees and shrubs, occasionally grows on dead coniferous wood. Causes inactive white rot.
f. 290 Fuscoporia ferruginosa (syn. Phellinus ferruginosus) - Rusty Fuscoporia
It differs from similar in appearance Fellinidium rusty-brown (Phellinidium ferrugineofuscum) and Fellinidium Pouzar (Phellinidium pouzarii, syn. Phellinus pouzarii) by its confinement to deciduous substrates.
Fomitiporia punctata (syn.Phellinus punctatus) - Fomitiporia punctate
Polypore with annual or perennial, rigid, outstretched fruiting bodies, thin or slightly thickened in the center, usually elongated along the substrate, with an even or wavy porous hymenophore. The sterile edge is narrow, thin, adjacent to the substrate, disappears with age. The litter is reddish or yellowish brown, very thin, woody. The color of the pore surface, depending on the season and weather conditions, varies from yellow-rusty-brown to grayish-brownish, umber. In perennial specimens, the hymenophores are layered, the layers are clear, the new layer often does not completely cover the previous one, and cracks often appear on older specimens. The pores are small, 6-8 per 1 mm, entire, from rounded-angular to diamond-shaped, the pore surface is iridescent when viewed from different angles, with a grayish bloom.
f.291 Fomitiporia punctata (syn. Phellinus punctatus) - Fomitiporia punctate
It grows on dying trees and dead deciduous wood, occasionally on conifers. Causes actively developing white rot. It is found on all continents, in Russia it is common throughout the forest zone.
The characteristic features of the species are open fruiting bodies with small, slightly diamond-shaped pores. A closely related species, morphologically identical to Fomitiporia punctata, but differing in microscopic structure, was described in 1982 under the name Phellinus pseudopunctatus. Black-bordered phellinus (Phellinus nigrolimitatus), in contrast to Fomitiporia punctata, often forms open-backed fruiting bodies, lives on coniferous substrates and has a thin dark layer in the tissue.
Season and habitat of the fungus
Hydnellum dark brown (Hydnellum ferrugineum) grows mainly in pine forests, prefers to develop on depleted sandy soil and is picky about its composition. Widely distributed in coniferous forests, with spruce, fir, pine. Sometimes it can grow in mixed or deciduous forests. The fungus of this species has the property of reducing the concentration of nitrogen and organic matter in the soil.
Rusty hydnellum thrives in old lingonberry forests with white moss, in the middle of old dumps along forest roads. Grows on soils and substrates. These mushrooms often surround the bumps and pits formed by heavy machinery. You can also see rusty hydellums next to forest paths. The fungus is ubiquitous in western Siberia. Fruiting from July to October.
