Hydnum repandum

The best known are the edible species Hydnum repandum and H. rufescens.

The white or buff Hydnum repandum has a spore scatterer of still another shape.

It is very similar to the commoner hedgehog fungus (Hydnum repandum), and is sometimes considered a variety of that species.

Hydnum repandum has been recently placed as a relative of Chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius).

Hydnum repandum (the hedgehog fungus) is an edible species, commercially collected in some countries and often marketed under the French name "pied de mouton".

Hedgehogs / "spreading-hedgehog mushroom" (Hydnum repandum)

Sporocarps (fruit bodies) of chanterelles and some Hydnum species, particularly Hydnum repandum, are edible and widely collected on a commercial scale.

The original genus Hydnum is still current, but is now restricted to the type species, Hydnum repandum, and its relatives in the order Cantharellales.

Hydnum repandum, commonly known as the Wood Hedgehog or Hedgehog mushroom, is an edible basidiomycete mushroom of the family Hydnaceae.

In 1933, Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk radically limited the Hydnaceae (which he referred to the tribe Hydneae) to Hydnum repandum and related species that produced "stichic" basidia (basidia with nuclear spindles arranged longitudinally).