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Grove or forest snail ( Hygrophorus nemoreus ) is a rare species of mushroom from the family of snail relatives (Hygrophoraceae).
features
The hat reaches a diameter of 4 to 12 centimeters, is hemispherical when young and soon spreads to a flat to depressed shape with often a slight hump and is pale orange-brown to yellowish-brick-red and lighter in color on the edge. The brim of the hat is rolled up and will later tear. The pale cream-colored, waxy lamellas are distant, have grown broad to short on the handle and have smooth edges. The spores appear white in bulk and measure 5 to 8 by 3.5 to 5 micrometers. The stem is 4 to 8 inches long and up to 1.5 inches thick, is tapered to the base and otherwise cylindrical in shape and has a consistently flaky, fibrous surface. The meat is light in color and near the skin of the hat, it smells faintly of flour and tastes mild.
Species delimitation
It can be confused with other snail snails such as the reddish isabel , the orange or gold-tooth snail or possibly also the (occasionally fatal) poisonous giant red bloom . The orange snail grows in different locations and has a characteristic, different smell. The golden-tooth snail has bright golden-yellow flakes on the edge of the hat and near the base of the stem. The similar orange-colored meadow Ellerling has a smooth stem and does not grow in the forest.
Distribution and ecology
It usually grows individually and less often in groups on limestone soils in a mycorrhizal symbiosis with deciduous trees such as oaks and sweet chestnuts . It occurs in Europe and North America and fructifies from September to October.
use
It is edible and has a mild taste and is valued as an edible mushroom, but should be spared due to its rarity.
Systematics and taxonomy
The species was described in 1828 by Wilhelm Gottfried Lasch as Agaricus nemoreus . In 1838 Elias Magnus Fries referred to it in his work Epicrisis Systematis Mycologici and assigned it to the genus of snails, which he had separated from the agaricus as a whole based on microscopic features. The species has already been assigned to the genus of the Ellerlings ( Camarophyllus ) ([Fries 1838] P. Kummer 1871) or even seen as a subspecies of the orange meadow Ellerlings ([Fries 1838] Quélet 1883). Like the German-language names, the species epithet "nemoreus" indicates the typical location in the forest.
Web links
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- ↑ Gerlinde Hausner: Mushrooms . The most important edible and poison mushrooms. 2nd Edition. BLV Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-405-13811-6 , p. 56 .
- ↑ Hans E. Laux: The great cosmos mushroom guide. All edible mushrooms with their poisonous doppelgangers. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-440-08457-4 , p. 104.
- ↑ Hans E. Laux: Edible mushrooms and their poisonous doppelgangers . Collect mushrooms - the right way. Kosmos Verlags-GmbH, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-440-10240-4 , p. 50 .
- ^ Find data from the Encyclopedia of Life
- ^ Hygrophorus nemoreus. In: mycobank.org. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
- ^ Elias Magnus Fries: Epicrisis systematis mycologici . seu synopsis hymenomycetum. Typographia Academica, Upsala 1838 (Latin, google.com ).
- ↑ C. Bas, Th.W. Kuyper, ME Noordeloos, EC Vellinga (Ed.): Flora Agaricina Neerlandica . tape 2 . AA Balkema Publishers, 1990, ISBN 978-90-6191-972-8 .
