Orange Snail
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Orange Snail ( Hygrophorus pudorinus ) |
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The orange snail ( Hygrophorus pudorinus ), also known as the silver fir or turpentine snail , is a species of mushroom from the family of snail relatives (Hygrophoraceae). The names refer to the orange (hat) color (Latin “pudor” is “shame”), the mycorrhizal partner silver fir and the turpentine- like smell and taste.
features
The hat reaches a diameter between 4 and 15 and occasionally up to twenty centimeters in diameter. At first it is hemispherical when young and later more flatly arched or even flattened and has a blunt hump. It is pale orange to yellow or pinkish orange, increasingly brightly colored towards the center. The skin is a bit sticky when wet, but hardly becomes greasy and never slimy. The brim of the hat is rolled up. The lamellae are attached to the stem, some of them sagging and whitish to salmon-colored. The spores are hyaline (when viewed in bulk they appear white), elliptoidal, smooth, 8 to 12 long and 4.6 to 6.5 micrometers thick. The basidia (spore-bearing cells) are four-pore and he has no cystids . The stem is essentially cylindrical and partly pointed or partly thickened at the base with a length of up to twelve and a diameter of up to three centimeters. It can get a bit slimy when wet; lightly flocked at the top. It has an unpleasant smell of turpentine to varying degrees.
Species delimitation
The Isabel Snail ( Hygrophorus poetarum ) has very similar fruiting bodies, but smells pleasantly fruity and lives in the company of beeches.
Ecology and phenology
It lives in the coniferous forest in mycorrhizal symbiosis with fir trees and prefers calcareous soils. It can be found in mountainous locations in Europe and is fruitful from August to November.
meaning
It is non-toxic and is sometimes eaten, but because of its unpleasant resinous (turpentine) taste, it is not recommended as an edible mushroom.
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- ↑ http://brd.pilzkartierung.de/f2specart.php?csuchsatz=jjb
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