Smooth-handled stick sponge
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Smooth-handled stick sponge ( Kuehneromyces lignicola ) |
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The smooth-stemmed stick sponges or smooth-stemmed spring stick sponges ( Kuehneromyces lignicola ) is a species of fungus from the family of the Strophariaceae relatives .
features
The smooth-stemmed stick sponge forms small fruiting bodies divided into hat and stem. The hat is 1 to 4 centimeters wide, it is arched with a blunt hump. The surface of the hat is ocher to cream yellow, it is hygrophan (becomes spotty when damp), when it is damp the hat becomes sticky and is then dark horn to date brown. When drying, it fades from the middle, the edge of the hat is bent downwards for a long time and finely grooved when wet. The stalk is about 3 to 7 centimeters long and up to 0.5 centimeters thick, it is old, hollow, dark brown in color and smooth, only rarely a fleeting ring is present. At the base, the stalks of several fruit bodies are fused together in tufts. The lamellae have grown broadly on the stem, and old fruit bodies are colored tobacco brown. The fruit bodies are tufted.
ecology
The smooth-handled stick sponge is a saprobiontic inhabitant of wood waste and rotten softwood in boreal and montane forests, it fructifies from April to November.
meaning
The smooth-handled stick sponge is inedible.
swell
- Horak, Egon: Röhrlinge and leaf mushrooms in Europe 6th edition, Elsevier-Verlag (2005), ISBN 978-3-8274-1478-6
- Hans E. Laux: The great cosmos mushroom guide. All edible mushrooms with their poisonous doppelgangers. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-440-08457-4 .
