''Hydnum albidum'', commonly known as the white hedgehog, is an

edible An edible item is any item that is safe for humans to eat. "Edible" is differentiated from "eatable" because it does not indicate how an item tastes, only whether it is fit to be eaten. Nonpoisonous items found in nature – such as some mushro ...

species of fungus in the family

Hydnaceae The Hydnaceae are a family of fungi in the order Cantharellales. Originally the family encompassed all species of fungi that produced basidiocarps (fruit bodies) having a hymenium (spore-bearing surface) consisting of slender, downward-hanging ta ...

native to North America.

References

Cantharellales Edible fungi Fungi described in 1887 Fungi of North America albidum {{Agaricomycetes-stub