stereum complicatum --but close inspection reveals a surface of tightly packed, tiny spines, making steccherinum ochraceum a toothed mushroom . it is a widely distributed decomposer of the deadwood of hardwoods. in the midwest it is fairly common in oak woods on fallen sticks and small logs in late...
purplish gray entolomatoid mushrooms . but a look at the black-edged gills instantly distinguishes entoloma serrulatum from most of the others. the term in mycologese for gills that have edges colored differently from the faces is "marginate," and perhaps there is no more striking example than this mushroom...
, its terrestrial habitat, and the spines or "teeth" on its underside. over the years mycologists have suspected a relationship between hydnum repandum (sometimes named dentinum repandum) and the chanterelles . in fact the hedgehog mushroom is easily mistaken for a faded chanterelle--until you get a...