Albatrellus confluens
Bread - Porling ( Albatrellus confluens )
The roll - Porling ( Albatrellus confluens, syn. Scutiger confluens ) is a species of fungus in the family Schafporlingsverwandten ( Albatrellaceae ). The most growing in pine forests fungus is lobed shaped and causes the impression that his hat was made of baked bread dough, where both his German, as well as its Italian name ( Fungo del pane ) stir.
- 6.1 Literature
- 6.2 Notes and references
Features
Macroscopic characteristics
The hat of the bread - Porlings is 3-20 cm wide and is of ungainly shape: it consists of numerous tab-like bulges that are similar to roof tiles grow together. In young mushrooms the hat skin is smooth, with age they will feldrig cracked. The color varies between teiggelb until golden brown, giving the hat looks like a bizarrely shaped bread. In ancient fungi, the hat colors are often dark and brown, usually is caused by algae a greenish tone; in the Rocky Mountains also have copies with a bluish tint found. The approximately 5 mm long tubes have small, circular pores with a diameter of 0.2-0.3 mm and run down the stem. Your yellowish white changes with increasing age to a reddish yellow. The individual usually hats all sitting on a stalk -like stalk, which attaches easily to the decentralized hat. It measures 3-6 cm in height and 1-3 inches in width; while it is initially white, his color transforms over time towards bräunlicheren (sometimes greenish ) tints. The white flesh is soft when fresh, in old mushrooms, however hard, coarse and brittle. Its smell is weak, it tastes sweet to slightly bitter. By drying it assumes a brick-red color; on potassium hydroxide reacts purple.
Microscopic characteristics
The spores have a size of 5-6 × 3-4 micrometers, broadly elliptical in shape and form a white spore powder. They show a slight Amyloidität. The Gloeopleren are branched and are colored by the addition of phloxine ( Tetrachlortetrabromfluorescein ). Parts of the hyphae are thickened and have buckles.
Artabgrenzung
The roll - Porling can with the closely related sheep Porling ( Albatrellus ovinus ) are confused, which is awarded usually a higher food value. The latter also often grows in clumps and sometimes by extension the yellow -brown color of the bread - Porlings. However, its stem is not branched, but is fused at the base with other stems. Just as there is with the roll - stubble fungus ( Hydnum repandum ) the likelihood of confusion - but here gives a look at the mushroom base quickly Clarity: missing the typical hedgehog mushrooms spines, so it may be just about the bread - Porling. The red color of the bread - Porlings during drying is a key differentiator, additional security put in doubt the microscopic features.
Ecology and distribution
The roll - Porling forms mycorrhizae with pine trees, where it is often found sociable. It requires acidic soils and grows from August to September. The distribution area covers the whole of Germany, in the rest of Europe it is found, as in the pine forests of southeastern North America.
System
For the roll - Porling no subspecies or varieties are recognized.
Importance
In the age of the bitter taste of the bread - Porlings increases, so especially young mushrooms are picked for the kitchen that are suitable to be pickled in vinegar and oil. Fresh meat of the bread - Porlings is unpalatable.