A gorgeous bread and meat broth called peara sauce further enhanced sliced chanterelle and hedgehog mushrooms, a splendid pairing of fruity aroma and earthy tang.

The meal includes a wood-grilled prime filet mignon with ragout of fingerling potato, hedgehog mushrooms and organic spinach, red wine-wild mushroom sauce.

Other names include bear's head, satyr's beard and hedgehog mushroom.

The shingled hedgehog mushroom (Sarcodon imbricatus) and related species contain blue-green pigments, which are used for dyeing wool in Norway.

Wicker baskets overflow with mushrooms: preposterously large cepes, ocher girolles, chubby pieds de mouton (hedgehog mushrooms) and jet-black trompettes de la mort, or black chanterelles.

Although distinctive in appearance, the hedgehog mushroom can be confused with non-edible species, such as Sarcodon scabrosus.

The hedgehog mushroom is considered to be a good edible, having a sweet, nutty taste and a crunchy texture.

Hericium erinaceus, another mushroom called "hedgehog mushroom"

Some have pores underneath (and are usually called boletes), others have spines, such as the hedgehog mushroom and other tooth fungi, and so on.

Look for fusilli mingled with hedgehog mushrooms (sometimes called pig's trotter), a special made sublime by these delicious fungi, which taste and look like white chanterelles.