Echinodontium tinctorium

Echinodontium tinctorium is a species of fungus in the family Echinodontiaceae. A plant pathogen, it is commonly known as the Indian paint fungus. Found on tree species such as grand fir (and indicating a rotten core), it can be identified by the grayish spines of its lower surface.[1]

Echinodontium tinctorium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Russulales
Family:
Echinodontiaceae
Genus:
Echinodontium
Species:
E. tinctorium
Binomial name
Echinodontium tinctorium
(Ellis & Everh.) Ellis & Everh. (1900) [as tinctorius]
Synonyms
  • Fomes tinctorius Ellis & Everh. (1895)
  • Hydnum tinctorium (Ellis & Everh.) Lloyd (1898)
  • Scindalma tinctorium (Ellis & Everh.) Kuntze (1898)
  • Hydnofomes tinctorius (Ellis & Everh.) Lloyd (1920)

Native Americans used the red interior as a pigment.[1] Some Plateau Indian tribes applied the fungus to skin to prevent it from chapping.[2] It is inedible.[3]

References
  1. Arno, Stephen F.; Hammerly, Ramona P. (2020) [1977]. Northwest Trees: Identifying & Understanding the Region's Native Trees (field guide ed.). Seattle: Mountaineers Books. pp. 133–134. ISBN 1-68051-329-X. OCLC 1141235469.
  2. Hunn, Eugene S. (1990). Nch'i-Wana, "The Big River": Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land. University of Washington Press. p. 353. ISBN 0-295-97119-3.
  3. Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. p. 328. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.


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