Furious purple snail
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Furious purple snail ( Hygrophorus erubescens ) |
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The Rasige Purple Snail ( Hygrophorus erubescens , Syn . : Limacium erubescens ) is a rare species of mushroom from the family of snail relatives . It is listed on several (red) lists of endangered species (including the Lithuanian , Bavarian, Rhineland-Palatinate). Due to its (slightly) bitter taste, it is considered inedible and has probably already led to slight poisoning in some cases. The name refers to the typical mass, grass-like appearance of the fruiting bodies.
features
The hat, 4 to 10 cm in diameter, is initially hemispherical and later more and more flat to slightly funnel-shaped. It has a whitish to pale pink color with (wine) reddish to purple-pink fibers on it. The smooth-edged, occasionally forked lamellae are broad to slightly sloping down on the handle. The spore powder is white. The stem is about one and a half centimeters thick and cylindrical, often slightly tapered and filled at the base. The flesh is thick and whitish, slightly yellowing and has a pleasant odor and (slightly) bitter taste.
Species delimitation
It is very similar to the spotted- leaved purple snail ( Hygrophorus russula ), which, however, lives with deciduous trees, especially oaks, and whose flesh does not yellow.
ecology
It is found near spruce trees, with which it lives in a mycorrhizal symbiosis, and prefers calcareous soils. It is fruiting from August to October with usually gregarious groups of fruiting bodies, some of which are formed in so-called witch rings and only rarely stand individually.
swell
- ↑ Markus Flück: Which mushroom is that? 3. Edition. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-440-11561-9 , pp. 136 .
