Hedgehog mushroom
Hydnum repandum · 卷缘齿菌
Occasional齿菌科🍽 Reported Edible (Wild)
Reference sources describe this as an edible wild fungus. This guide provides no basis whatsoever for foraging or consumption.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Cap creamy yellow, irregularly shaped
- Underside bears fine white needle-like spines
- Stem white; grows in woodland
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 齿菌科
- Hymenium
- Teeth
- Grows On
- Mycorrhizal
- How Big
- 3–15 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Occasional
- Habitat
- Ground in broadleaf and conifer woods
Easily Confused With
Shingled hedgehogCap brown, covered in coarse, dark, upturned scales
ChanterelleOverall egg-yolk yellow, funnel-shaped, with a wavy marginFun Fact
European foragers love it because no poisonous mushroom shares its soft, cream-colored spines — though that's still no reason to identify by a single trait alone.
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