Beech fruit peel wooden leg
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Beech fruit peel wooden leg ( Xylaria carpophila ) |
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The beech fruit peel wooden club or beech peel wooden club ( Xylaria carpophila ) is a tubular fungus from the genus of the wooden club ( Xylaria ).
features
The beech fruit peel wooden club forms dark, thread-like stromata (collective fruit bodies) consisting of vegetative mycelium, 0.5 to 3 cm long and 0.5 to 1.3 mm wide, into which the actual fruit bodies ( perithecia ) in the ripe stage in the upper half are sunk. Immature stomata are powdered white by conidial spores , ripe collective fruiting bodies are darkly colored, thickened in the upper half and tubercular-humped by the perithecia, the lower part is finely felted. In the upper area, the stroma, which is white inside, can simply be branched.
ecology
The book peel-wooden club lives saprobiontisch on old fallen fruit cups of beechnuts . The species often grows under the foliage and is only found with a targeted search. It is common in Central Europe, due to its substrate it can be found in the vicinity of fruiting beeches .
meaning
The beech fruit peel wooden leg is out of the question as an edible mushroom.
swell
- Hans E. Laux: The great cosmos mushroom guide. All edible mushrooms with their poisonous doppelgangers. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-440-08457-4 .
- Josef Breitenbach, Fred Kränzlin (Ed.): Mushrooms of Switzerland. Contribution to knowledge of the fungal flora in Switzerland. Volume 1: Ascomycetes (Ascomycetes). 2nd, corrected edition. Mykologia, Luzern 1984, ISBN 3-85604-011-0 .
