Hydnellum cyanopodium K.A. Harrison
Can. J. Bot. 42: 1221. 1964.

Common Name: none

• Description

  For descriptions see Harrison & Siegel & Schwarz.

• Habitat

  Very rare, known only from a handfull of sites from central Humboldt County coast in California to Clatsop County on the northern Oregon coast. Found in mature/oldgrouth Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) forests near the coast.

• Edibility

  Unknown, too tough and rare for the table.

• Comments

  Recognized by it’s bluish to bluish purple color of the sporocarps, bluish flesh interior flesh and droplets on the margin when young, and mycorrhizal association Sitka spruce. 

• References

  Baird, R.E. (1989). Type Studies of North American and Other Related Taxa of Stipitate Hydnums: Genera Bankera, Hydnellum, Phellodon, Sarcodon (Bibliotheca Mycologia: Band 103). J. Cramer: Berlin, Germany. 89 p.
  Harrison, K.A. (1964). New or little known North American stipitate hydnums. Can. J. Bot. 42(9): 1205-1233. (Protologue)
  Siegel, N. & Schwarz, C. (2016). Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast. Ten Speed Press: Berkeley, CA. 601 p.

• Other Descriptions and Photos
  Main Photo
  • Noah Siegel: Hydnellum cyanopodium (CP)
  • Noah Siegel: Hydnellum cyanopodium (CP)
  • Noah Siegel: Hydnellum cyanopodium (CP)
  • Mushroom Observer: Hydnellum cyanopodium (CP)
  • Wikipedia: Hydnellum cyanopodium (D & CP)
  • Fungal Red List: Hydnellum cyanopodium (D & CP)
  
  

  (D=Description; I=Illustration; P=Photo; CP=Color Photo)