Hygrocybe psittacina

The Parrot Green Parrot Saftling or Saftling ( Hygrocybe psittacina ) is a species of fungus in the genus of the wax caps.

Features

The parrot Green Saftling forms relatively small fruiting bodies with 1-4.5 cm wide hats and 4-7 cm long, to 1.2 cm thick, hollow, often bent and furrowed stems. Contrasting the species is very variable, it may ask the eponymous parrot green over ( lemon ) yellow, orange to reddish meat or colored in violet tones. At the age the fruit body pale and are then dyed pale yellow to whitish. The hat skin is young covered with thick green mucus, in wet weather the hats are slimy and striate, dry shiny. The thick and bulbous fins are colored bright yolk yellow, sometimes greenish or reddish, they are removed and are attached to the stem. From Parrot Green Saftling also different varieties have been described, so the variety abietina from France, which differs on spruce needle litter on the variety psittacina entirely by green slats, the lack of reds and occurrence. The Brick Brown Saftling ( Hygrocybe psittacina var perplexa ) is strongly colored brick to red-brown and has no green color tones. This form occurs in South America, Japan, North America and Europe.

Ecology

The parrot Green Saftling inhabited dry grassland, juniper heaths, extensively managed and not more than moderately fertilized meadows and pastures. He also comes to pastures, dunes, grassy forest edges, rare on thin places in forests before, sometimes to the edge of fens. Very rarely is the kind to be found in the park. The parrot Green Saftling represents the pH, nutrient content and the moisture content of the soil is less demanding than other Saftling types and comes with different parent rocks cope, he even tolerates moderate fertilization with mature organic fertilizers, chemical fertilizers and manure but take him to the disappearance. The parrot Green Saftling despite this larger ecological amplitude as many members of the genus wax caps conceived by nutrient input and eutrophication of its habitats in decline, even if not in acute danger.

Dissemination

The parrot Green Saftling occurs in South Africa, Argentina, the Canary Islands, Korea, Japan, Kamchatka, the United States, Canada and Greenland. In Europe the kind of Southern Europe to Scandinavia, Iceland and Faroe Islands and of the United Kingdom and France is represented to the Baltic states and Northeast Russia. In Germany, the Green Parrot Saftling is widespread.

Importance

The parrot Green Saftling is protected in Germany, in the nature, it serves as another wax caps as an indicator of valuable, nutrient-poor grass companies. Because of this function pointer for valuable grass societies the type was chosen in 2003 by the German Society for Mycology for fungus of the year. He looks slightly toxic to the human organism, enjoyed in large quantities it causes indigestion.