The picture of the spores shows pale brown, tuberculate spores like in Hydnellum suaveolens:
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/...

I think it’s possible to cut trough a dried specimen too, and it should show a bluish zonate flesh, like this:
http://www.ambmuggia.it/forum/uploads/post-2-1090246977.jpg

I don’t know what it should smell like, but if I’m not mistaken, H. regium is pale, almost white in the stem.

Hi guys, I just wanted to let you know that the species I have will now be a dried specimen and I don’t know if the specific pictures you want will still be obtainable but I will try during my lab on Monday. I also looked in Mushrooms Demystified about the H.regium and it said the odor was “farinaceous” (pg 625) whereas the specimen I collected was decidedly “strongly fragrant (like anise or peppermint)” (pg 624)

H. regium but you cant really tell from your photo.
please photograph the underside and then cut it in half (down the cap through the middle of the stalk) and add a photo of the flesh color.

How can we determine the colour of the spines, when the picture doesn’t show them?

With the grey spines, this usually points to Phellodon, which has a white spore print, where Hydnellum should have a brown spore print (I think I have the right?). Although I’m not sure Phellodon has warted spores. But did consider Phellodon here, and knock it out for some reason?