Cap salmon-pink, smooth or faintly downy, initially convex with an inrolled margin, later becoming flattened and slightly funnel-shaped. The stem is stout, more or less equal, sometimes eccentric, and finely downy. The flesh is pinkish, soft, thick, and crumbly. The spines are salmon pink and adnexed or almost free rather than decurrent to the stem. Stem pinkish white and solid with white flesh Spore print white.
Microscopic Features: Spores are ellipsoidal, smooth, measuring 6.5-8 x 5.5-7μm.
Hydnum rufescens on the www.first-nature.com web site.
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