Hedgehog Mushroom

Hydnum repandum (species), “Sweet Tooth”, “Wood Hedgehog”

Hedgehog mushrooms are a choice edible species of Hydnum that feature numerous tiny teeth on the underside of their beige-colored caps. They are found in Europe and throughout the United States, with their fruiting peaking in Fall.

Color

Beige

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Taste

Hedgehog mushrooms have a sweet, nutty flavor – which is why some people call them the “sweet tooth.” Many choose to sautee them in butter, sometimes with garlic. Overall, Hedgehogs are a very popular mushroom with foragers (particularly because they are difficult to misidentify, unlike other species like Chanterelles and Morels, which both have poisonous lookalikes).

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Hydnum repandum, commonly known as the sweet tooth, wood hedgehog or hedgehog mushroom, is a basidiomycete fungus of the family Hydnaceae. First described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, it is the type species of the genus Hydnum. The fungus produces fruit bodies (mushrooms) that are characterized by their spore-bearing structures—in the form of spines rather than gills—which hang down from the underside of the cap. The cap is dry, colored yellow to light orange to brown, and often develops an irregular shape, especially when it has grown closely crowded with adjacent fruit bodies. The mushroom tissue is white with a pleasant odor and a spicy or bitter taste. All parts of the mushroom stain orange with age or when bruised. A mycorrhizal fungus, Hydnum repandum is broadly distributed in Europe …