Mushrooms Hydnellum Peck

Fruiting bodies simple or fused, with flattened or depressed, usually rough, scaly velvet hat to 6.5 cm in diameter . Cappainted in white tones, with age becomes red-black, purple-black or brown, rarely dark blue color, often with concentric zones . Leg 0,5-6 × 0,5 - 2 cm, cylindrical or spindle-shaped, whitish, then the same color with a hat . Hymenophore prickly, spines to 5 mm long, initially white and then to darkenlight sirenevato or brownish . The flesh is bright, pinkish-brown or light brown in color, stem darker than in a hat with a noticeable yellowish streaks . The taste is bitter, strong . It grows on the ground in the autumn coniferous (spruce and pine) forests . Inedible because of the strong bitter taste .