Hydnum albidum

A white Hydnum with a sweet taste.

Monomitic hyphal system, with thin-walled pileipellis hyphae, 3-8 µm wide, hyaline, interwoven, septate with clamp connections at the septa.

Well-differentiated cystidia absent, but with scattered, slender cylindrical hairs in the hymenium projecting conspicuously above the basidial level.

Basidia subcylindrical to very slightly clavate, 35-50 µm long and 6-8 µm wide, with basal clamps, 4-spored.

Spores ovoid to ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with an inconspicuous apiculus at one end, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.