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n. - Type genus of family of flowering plants in Africa and Argentina that are parasitic on the roots of other plants.

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  • Hydnum is derived from a Greek word, the name of an edible fungus.
  • In the spreading Hydnum the margin of the cap is arched and irregular.
  • This order contains many genera, two of which we will mention, Hydnum and Tremellodon.
  • However, some writers say that Hydnum repandum, or the spreading Hedgehog, is “delicious.”
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