Hat (mycology)

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The hat ( pileus ) is the common name of the part of the fruiting body of many mushrooms that bears the hymenophore . Hats are formed by representatives of the mushroom-like , thick boletus-like , thorny mushrooms and some ashlar mushrooms .

Classification

The characteristics include hat shape, hat size, hat color and, in the case of some mushrooms, hygrophan behavior, hat surface, hat skin, hat rim and hat meat (Huttrama).

Hat shapes

  • bell-like

  • conical

  • arched

  • Middle depressed

  • spread out

  • funnel-shaped

  • offset

  • spherical

  • naveled

  • hunched

See also

literature

  • Ewald Gerhardt: FSVO manual mushrooms. 4th, revised edition, (special edition). BLV, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8354-0053-3 .
  • Rose Marie Dähncke : 200 mushrooms. 180 mushrooms for the kitchen and its poisonous doppelgangers. 5th revised edition. AT-Verlag, Aarau 1992, ISBN 3-85502-145-7 .

Web links

Commons : hat features (from section "cap form" ff.)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files