Hydnellum auratile

Hydnellum auratile is a tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae, first described by the German mycologist Max Britzelmayr in 1891. The fungus produces distinctive orange to orange-brown fruit bodies with caps up to 5 cm wide that fade to brown with age. It forms ectomycorrhizal associations with both coniferous and deciduous trees, particularly Scots pine and Norway spruce on calcareous soils. Though widely distributed across Europe, parts of Asia, Australia, and North America's Pacific Northwest, H. auratile is considered endangered in Switzerland....read more on Wikipedia.