{"id":2338,"date":"2013-10-07T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/save-our-green.com\/allpost\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2018-02-22T21:49:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:19:46","slug":"bleeding-tooth-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/bleeding-tooth-fungus\/","title":{"rendered":"Bleeding tooth fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bleeding tooth fungus<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2339\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2339\" class=\"wp-image-2339\" title=\"Bleeding tooth fungus\" src=\"http:\/\/save-our-green.com\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bleedingtoothfungus.jpg\" alt=\"Bleeding tooth fungus\" width=\"486\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bleedingtoothfungus.jpg 600w, https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bleedingtoothfungus-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bleedingtoothfungus-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bleedingtoothfungus-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bleedingtoothfungus-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bleeding tooth fungus<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Scientific name:<\/strong> <em>Hydnellum peckii<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Common name:<\/strong>\u00a0Bleeding tooth fungus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distribution:\u00a0<\/strong>This inedible fungus is found in North America , Europe , Iran &amp; Korea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> This hydnoid spp. is found growing solitarily, scattered or clustered together in masses. It has a funnel shaped cap atop a stem like structure , with vertical spines or tooth like projections hanging from the under-surface.\u00a0The young moist fruit bodies &#8216;bleed&#8217; a bright red juice that contains a pigment known as atromentin . Its interesting to know that the pigment has anticoagulant properties similar to heparin.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2340\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2340\" class=\"wp-image-2340\" title=\"Hydnellum peckii\" src=\"http:\/\/save-our-green.com\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bleedingfungus.jpg\" alt=\"Hydnellum peckii\" width=\"488\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bleedingfungus.jpg 860w, https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bleedingfungus-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hydnellum peckii<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Economic Importance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. These form a mycorrhizal association with a variety of conifers like hemlock and pines.<\/p>\n<p>2. The fruit bodies are used as dyes giving varied hues of blue and green with a mordant.<\/p>\n<p>The sight of a &#8216;red juice tooth&#8217; instantly reminds you of cream and strawberry juice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bleeding tooth fungus Scientific name: Hydnellum peckii Common name:\u00a0Bleeding tooth fungus. Distribution:\u00a0This inedible fungus is found in North America , Europe , Iran &amp;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,633],"tags":[1059,1060],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plants","category-fungi-plants","tag-bleeding-tooth-fungus","tag-hydnellum-peckii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}