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Orange Rough-cap Tooth

Hydnellum aurantiacum

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) popov_zhenya, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.

United States	18,223
Alaska	17,614
Canada	527
British Columbia	165
Washington	136
California	91
Ontario	90
Nova Scotia	76
New Brunswick	73
Oregon	69

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Human edibleListed as edible by a harvested source. This is a research trait, not foraging advice.FungiTastic metadata

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Fungi Including Lichens · Fungi
Phylum	Basidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
Class	Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
Order	Thelephorales
Family	Boletopsidaceae
Genus	Hydnellum

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Fungi of Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada

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Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: FungiTastic metadata (BSD-3-Clause repository; dataset terms require verification)
How much to rely on each source

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