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Hericium erinaceus (Bull.) Pers., 1797 (Bearded Tooth)

BAP Species	Tranche 2, Feb 1999
1992 (Provisional) Red Data List	Vulnerable
2007 (Draft) Red Data List	Annex

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Ainsworth, M., 2004 (Colour photograph)	Developing tools for assessing fungal interest in habitats, 1: beech woodland saprotrophs
Dickson, G. & Leonard, A., 1996 (Photograph)	Fungi of the New Forest - A Mycota

General Works

Evans, S., 2003 (BAP species)

Conservation Corner (April 2000)

Hericium erinaceus may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)

BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

RUSSULALES
(an order of toadstools)

Hericium
(a genus of tooth fungi)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Hericium erinaceus is associated with:

fruitbody	Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae)	fruitbody feeds on trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
fruitbody	Populus - poplars (Salicaceae)	fruitbody feeds on trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
fruitbody	Carpinus betulus - Hornbeam (Betulaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
fruitbody	Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
fruitbody	Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
fruitbody	Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
fruitbody	Carpinus betulus - Hornbeam (Betulaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, standing trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
fruitbody	Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, standing trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
fruitbody	Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, standing trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
fruitbody	Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, standing trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]

Associated with Hericium erinaceus:

Hericium erinaceus may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)

References

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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