Polyporus squamosus

Scaly Stielporling ( Polyporus squamosus )

The Scaly stem Porling or short Scaly Polypore ( Polyporus squamosus ) is a species of fungus in the family Stielporlingsverwandten, which also affects living trees and developed by all representatives of the genus largest fruit body. The German name is the literal translation of the scientific name: Polyporus means " Polypore " ( literally " Vielporer " ) and which also stems from the Latin squamosus called " vielschuppig ". Another popular name is Schwarzfußporling. It refers to the black stem base.

Features

Macroscopic characteristics

The hat is decorated with a width of 10-30 ( -60 ) cm extraordinarily large. He unfolds initially flat fan-shaped bulges later funnel shaped and appear in the top view often kidney-shaped. The top is yellowish, stained pale brown and later covered with concentric fitting and brown scales. The white to pale yellowish tubes on the Hutunterseite are 0.2-1 cm long. You have irregularly shaped and up to 2.5 mm wide mouths. The spore powder is white. The thick-fleshed, short and stocky stem has a diameter of 2-6 cm. He is usually laterally grown on substrate, rare centrally constantly. At the age he has a black handle base, the darkness can handle up to pull up to the middle. The thick and soft flesh of young species is edible, at the age of Scaly Stielporling is inedible due to the increasing corky - chewy consistency. Striking is the cheese - intensive to gherkin -like smell, the taste is nutty.

Microscopic characteristics

The spores are elliptical, smooth, and measure 10-16 x 4-6 microns.

Artabgrenzung

A confusion is hardly possible due to the conspicuous appearance. A certain similarity have sklerotienlosen copies of sclerotia - Stielporlings ( P. tuberaster ). However, they have small, usually centrally stalked fruiting bodies, growing mainly on fallen branches, possess a ciliated hat brim and have no specific odor.

Ecology

The fungus occurs on trunks of dead or severely weakened deciduous trees and causes a white rot, that is, it builds up in the wood preferred the lignin from. Striking feature is its occurrence in conjunction with a very rapid growth in May and June, more rarely, it can also appear from April to September.

Importance

The Scaly Porling is edible young, his culinary value but is considered to have low rather.

Swell

• Ewald Gerhardt: BLV manual mushrooms. 3 edition. BLV, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-405-14737-2 ( 639 pages; single-volume edition of the BLV leaders mushrooms Intensive 1 and 2).
• Giovanni Pacioni: The new BLV mushroom book. 420 fungal species illustrated in color. BLV, Munich, 1986, ISBN 978-3405126056 (512 pages).