Olive yellow wooden knight
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Olive yellow wood knight ( Tricholomopsis decora ) |
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The olive-yellow wood knight ( Tricholomopsis decora ) is a type of mushroom from the family of knight relatives .
features
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The olive-yellow wood knight forms 3–10 cm wide and up to 10 cm high fruiting bodies divided into a hat and handle . The surface of the hat is covered with concentrically arranged olive-greenish to black-brown scales on a golden yellow ground, the middle of the hat appears darker due to the more densely arranged scales. The finely fibrous brim of the hat is bent down for a long time. The golden yellow, narrow lamellae have a smooth cutting edge and are bulged onto the handle. The sulfur-yellow, longitudinally fibrous stalk is about 0.6-1 cm thick with a length of 3–7 cm, it can be eccentric or curved, at the tip it is covered with brownish flakes. The flesh is yellow and tastes mild to slightly bitter.
ecology
The olive-yellow wood knight is a saprobiont inhabitant of coniferous wood, who lives on rotten stumps, stems, lying trunks or thick branches of spruce , pine and fir and causes white rot in the populated wood . It usually occurs at over 300 m above sea level in spruce or mixed forests, in spruce forests or on the edges of bogs , with acidic soils being preferred.
distribution
The species occurs in the Holarctic in warmer to temperate areas; it was found in the Caucasus, eastern Siberia, Japan, the USA and Canada. In Europe it is widespread from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, it occurs in Norway and Finland up to the 68th parallel.
meaning
The olive-yellow wood knight is non-toxic, but inedible - as a wood decomposer, it is of no economic importance.
swell
- German Josef Krieglsteiner (Ed.), Andreas Gminder : Die Großpilze Baden-Württemberg . Volume 3: Mushrooms. Leaf mushrooms I. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3536-1 .
