Pseudohydnum gelatinosum

Taxobox | name = "Pseudohydnum gelatinosum"
regnum = Fungi
divisio = Basidiomycota

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image_caption = "Pseudohydnum gelatinosum"
subdivisio = Agaricomycotina
classis = Heterobasidiomycetes
ordo = Tremellales
familia = Tremellaceae
genus = "Pseudohydnum"
species = "P. gelatinosum"
binomial = "Pseudohydnum gelatinosum"
binomial_authority = (Scop. ex Fr.) P. Karst.mycomorphbox
name = Pseudohydnum gelatinosum
whichGills = decurrent
capShape = depressed
hymeniumType=teeth
stipeCharacter=bare
ecologicalType=saprotrophic
sporePrintColor=white
howEdible=edible

"Pseudohydnum gelatinosum" (common names include toothed jelly fungus, false hedgehog mushroom, and white jelly mushroom) is an edible mushroom, which is common from Alaska to northern California. Although bland, it can be candied or marinated.

External links

* [http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=120525 Index Fungorum entry] for "Pseudohydnum gelatinosum"
* [http://healing-mushrooms.net/archives/pseudohydnum-gelatinosum.html “"Pseudohydnum gelatinosum"”] by Robert Sasata, "Healing-Mushrooms.net", July, 2008.

ee also

*Hydnum repandum, the hedgehog mushroom
*Hericium erinaceus, another mushroom called "hedgehog mushroom"