Neolentinus lepideus
Scaly Sägeblättling ( Neolentinus lepideus )
The Scaly Sägeblättling ( Neolentinus lepideus, syn. Lentinus lepideus, L. squamosus ) is a mushroom of the genus Neolentinus.
Features
The Scaly Sägeblättling is 5-15 cm wide fruiting bodies of a yellowish- white ground color, covered with coarse, brownish scales. The mushrooms are curved young, later expanded with hunched or recessed Hutmitte. The edge is long rolled and joined to the stem by a volatile veil. The wide lamella run down on the stem and have roughly notched or serrated cutting. Their color is yellowish-white, the spore powder white. The eccentric to lateral standing stalk is 3-6, up to 10 cm long, in exceptional cases, and forms a kind of stuck in the root substrate. The stalk is colored and tough, whitish and brownish base. It has an indistinct ring zone, including it is covered with scales. The meat is first soft, chewy later. Its color is yellowish-white. The fungus smells sweet and resinous, very weak, or aniseed apple. On wooden constructions in dark rooms (mines ) of the Scaly Sägeblättling forms large, sterile, antler -like branched dark shapes.
Ecology
The Scaly Sägeblättling is a holzbewohnender saprophyte, the mainly coniferous, very rarely populated Hardwood and produces a brown rot with typical würfeligem break in infested wood. Preferred substrates are spruce and pine. The Scaly Sägeblättling inhabits pine and spruce forests, beech and hornbeam - oak forests, riparian hardwood possible, clearcuts, forest road edges and clearings. It grows there very sunny, warm places on dry stumps of conifers. He can also verbautem on coniferous wood, both in the field ( railway sleepers, beams and fences ) and also occur in moist, warm buildings and mines.
Dissemination
The species is apparently widespread cosmopolitan and populated primarily the temperate latitudes of the southern and the northern hemisphere, but is also found in northern India, Central America and South Africa. In Europe, it comes from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia before and is widely scattered throughout Germany.
Importance
The Scaly Sägeblättling is not edible, as colonizers of railway sleepers, beams and wooden constructions in buildings and mines it can cause damage.