Auriscalpium vulgare

Ear spoon - Stache Ling ( Auriscalpium vulgare)

The ear spoon - Stache Ling ( Auriscalpium vulgare) is a mushroom of the family of ear spoon Stache Ling relatives ( Auriscalpiaceae ). The small, growing on conifer cones fruiting bodies are characterized by braunfilzige hats, a prickly ( hydnoides ) hymenophore and side -faceted stems.

• 6.1 Notes and references

Features

Macroscopic characteristics

The fruiting bodies are divided into hat and a laterally ansitz forming stem. The kidney- shaped or round hat is curved 5-20 mm wide and easily. The top is brownish in young fruit bodies, dark red or maroon colored older. The surface is striegelig - tomentose and dry. The hat has the peduncle on a characteristic structure notch.

The fruit layer on the underside of the cap is spine- shaped ( hydnoid ). The pfriemartigen, 2-3 mm long spines are pale to dirty brown with darker tip. You hardly walk down the stem. The spore powder of the ear spoon - Stache Lings is white. The stem is 20-60 (-100 ) mm long and 1-2 mm thick. The surface of the full, elastic stem is dark green to maroon and how the hat striegelig - tomentose. Rarely two or three fruiting bodies are fused together at the stem base.

The tough flesh of the fungus is wood brown hat and dyed black in the stem. On average, the only 0.5 mm thick Cap flesh under the felt-like surface on a dark line. The smell of the fungus is insignificant, the taste sharp.

Microscopic characteristics

The ovate - spherical, hyaline and amyloid spores are ornamented feinstachelig. They measure 4-5.5 × 3.5-4.5 microns.

Artabgrenzung

The ear spoon - Stache Ling is hardly to be confused with other types of fungi. He is the only type occurring in Europe and also the type species of its genus.

Ecology and phenology

The species grows on saprobiontisch lying on the ground or buried pine cones; Often they also colonized spruce cones. The fungus is found almost throughout the year and is widely used.

Dissemination

The ear spoon - Stache Ling comes in North America (Canada, Mexico, United States), Asia before (Caucasus, Siberia, North India, West Pakistan, Japan, South Korea and China) and Europe. In South America it has been demonstrated. In the Holarctic he is meridional spread to boreal. In southern Europe (southern France and the Balkans ) is the fungus rarely and dissemination mostly confined to the mountains. In North West (UK and Ireland ), Western ( Benelux ) and throughout Central Europe to Hungary the ear spoon - Stache Ling is widespread. In northern Europe, it is quite common in southern Fennoscandia and Northwest Russia. North of the 60th parallel it is rare, but can be detected in Norway and Sweden to the 66th degree of latitude. According Krieglsteiner it occurs in Finland on the west coast of the Gulf of Bothnia to the 70th degree of latitude.

Importance

The ear spoon - Stache Ling is not edible mushroom.