Woolly Tooth

Phellodon tomentosus

Family: Bankeraceae

Woolly Tooth (Phellodon tomentosus)
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Overview

Cream-brown velvety tooth fungus of mossy conifer woodland across Europe and the boreal. Inedible (tough and bitter) but used in dyeing — yields a turquoise-blue dye.

Edibility
Inedible
Rarity
common
Trophic mode
mycorrhizal

Host trees & substrate

  • Local forest substrate

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