Pholiota flammans

Fire Schüppling ( Pholiota flammans )

The Fire Schüppling ( Pholiota flammans ) is a species of fungus in the family Träuschlingsverwandten. There is a wood residents with strikingly colored fruiting bodies.

Features

Macroscopic characteristics

The cap is initially hemispherical shaped and closed, convex and finally flat later spread and flattened. He reached a diameter between 2-6 (-8 ) cm. The edge is rolled long and busy in young fruit bodies with Velumfasern. The hat is lemon yellow, later yolk- yellow to orange-yellow. The surface is dry. It is covered with erect golden yellow scales, but can also be applied in old age. In wet weather the surface will be slightly sticky. The slats are lolly grown until shortly decurrent. They are interspersed with shorter leaves and crowded stand. First, they are tinted yellow, at the age they turn rusty brown by the spores. The slats are smooth cutting. The spore powder is rust colored brown. The stem is cylindrical in shape and strong. It has a sulfur- yellow color. Below the ring he is densely covered with erect dark yellow scales; about it is smooth. The ring is flaky and sits quite high on the stem. This is between three and eight centimeters long and 4-10 mm wide. Its consistency is initially full, later hollow. The flesh is yellow. On average, it turns slowly, more or less reddish-brown. At the age it is yellowish - rusty color. The meat smells slightly spicy. The taste is bitter and astringent ( astringent ).

Microscopic characteristics

The spores are elliptical in shape and measure 3-4.5 × 2-2.5 microns.

Artabgrenzung

The Fire Schüppling is characterized by its striking, vivid colors and its scales, which are lighter in color than the hat. The savings Fingered Schüppling (Ph. squarosa ) has rust-brown scales and usually grows on deciduous wood. Similar is also the reddening Schüppling (Ph. tuberculosa ). However, his hat is initially smooth and has later been expressed shed. Also bright colors have, for example the Gold Coat (Ph. aurivella ) and the brush - Schüppling (Ph. jahnii ). They also have red-brown or dark -colored scales and occur mainly on deciduous wood.

Ecology

The Fire Schüppling is found mainly in dominated by coniferous stands as fir-beech and fir forests and in acidophilous spruce-fir and spruce forests. The fruiting bodies appear from summer to late autumn individually to gregarious on rotten stumps and branches lying on the ground, which are in the optimum phase of Vermorschung. The substrate used is mostly spruce, pine and fir sporadically. In rare cases, hardwood, it is settled as beech.

Dissemination

The Fire Schüppling is widespread in the Holarctic, where he is in North America, Europe and Asia (Asia Minor, Siberia, Japan) to be found. In Europe, the territory of Great Britain, the Benelux countries and France ranges in the west to Estonia and Belarus to the east and from Fennoscandia in the north to Spain, Italy and Romania in the south. In Germany the species is widespread but scattered in the North German lowlands to find.

Importance

The Fire Schüppling is not suitable as an edible mushroom, because it is unpalatable because of its bitter taste.