Tricholoma virgatum
Burning Knight (Tricholoma virgatum )
The Burning Knight (Tricholoma virgatum ), short for Brennendscharfer Tricholoma, a type of fungus is from the family of Tricholoma relatives ( Tricholomataceae ).
Features
Macroscopic characteristics
The hat measures 3-5 (-8 ) cm in diameter, is spitzkegelig young to bell -shaped and later expanded with a distinct hump in the middle and sometimes torn. The sharp brim is bent down. The surface is dry and silky, shiny and mostly ash- gray to metallic, rare light to beige colored when dry, crossed by darker ( blackish ), radial fibers and some with slight violet aspects. The fins are gray - whitish, dense, and intermingled standing, have notched cutting and are bulged on a stick grown. The spore powder is white. The stem is 5-8 ( -12 ) cm high, 1-1.8 cm thick and designed largely shaped cylindrical and fibrous. He is superficial whitish to cinereous and glabrous or slightly whitish fibrous. The flesh is whitish and brittle. It tastes burning pungent, bitter and smells vaguely earthy- radish -like, but not flour -like.
Microscopic characteristics
The spores are 6-8.5 × 4.5-6.5 microns in size.
Artabgrenzung
Similar species are the Tiger Tricholoma ( T. pardinum ), the Common Earth Tricholoma ( T. terreum ), the closely related Bitter beech Tricholoma ( T. bresadolanum ) and Schärflicher Tricholoma ( T. sciodes ) and other gray - to schwarzhütige and also edible knight charges. The Tiger Tricholoma has a more or less unpleasant odor flour. The Bitter beech Ritterlingsartige usually grows with beech on calcareous soil.
Ecology, phenology and distribution
He lives in coniferous forests, rarely in deciduous forests, preferably acidic soil and fruktifiziert August to October. It is widespread in Europe and ( North ) America.
Systematics and Taxonomy
The Art epithet " virgatum " means "striped". The Schärfliche Knight (Tricholoma sciodes ) was formerly regarded as a variety of Burning knight compact.
Toxicology
The mushroom is poisonous. The poisoning manifests as nausea, vomiting and gastrointestinal disease. It contains (partly in him newly discovered ) indole alkaloids (2,4- Dimethylindole, 4 - (hydroxymethyl )-2- methylindole, 4 - ( methoxymethyl )-2- methylindole ). He probably produces fumes, can stun the flies.