The delectable (and spiky -- Look Ma! No gills!) Hydnum repandum, or Hedgehog Mushroom.
There are only two or three spots remaining in the “Mushrooms of the Front Range” class I will be teaching in August for the Boulder County Nature Association. If you are interested, email me! Details here. Also, if you cannot make the class and are local, I will be giving a humorous (hopefully) 15-minute lecture on poisonous mushrooms called “Avoiding Death by Mushroom Myth” June 26 at the Colorado Skepticamp in the Duane Physics Building at CU. The focus will be more on the mushrooms than the myths. The bulk will be the short lecture I would have given at Ignite Boulder (“Colorado Mushrooms You Should Not Eat Under Any Circumstance”), should I have been picked. Time TBA.
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You go girl! Have fun.
Thanks Kathie! I’m finally putting that mycology degree to work. : )
Kathie Hodge was my mycology teacher, guys. I learned (almost) everything I know about fungi from her and Karl Whittaker. She runs the Cornell Mushroom Blog, which you should check out when you get some time!