Blusher
Blusher (Amanita rubescens )
The blusher (Amanita rubescens ), also called Rötender Amanita mushroom or meat, is a species of fungus in the family Wulstlingsverwandten. Distinctive design and name is the pink to reddish discoloration on sites of injury. Mature fruiting bodies are often laced with just discolored Made gears. The blusher is often widespread and can be found in both deciduous and coniferous forests in.
- 2.1 Pantherpilz
- 2.2 Grey Amanita
- 7.1 Literature
- 7.2 Notes and references
Features
Macroscopic characteristics
The external appearance is dependent on the location and the weather very variable. The first almost spherical, later aufschirmende hat measures in width from 4 to 16 inches. He is mostly meat brown, pale reddish colored to reddish-brown, but can also have yellow-brown, gray -yellow to grayish-white tones; the edge is not serrated. The cap is covered with gray-white or reddish gray, flat Velumresten. The hat skin is easily removable; including the Trama is colored pale reddish. The white fins have red - brown spots, especially in old age. The leaves are quite broad, closely based and have a soft consistency. They are attached to the stem.
Also, the whitish stem gets later, especially in the lower part and on sites of injury red - brown spots or stripes. He is up to 16 inches long and three inches thick, tapering towards the top. Prolonged dry season, the surface is clearly transverse to the longitudinal axis and thus appears banded genattert. In the age of the stem is hollow. After Aufschirmen the hat the membranous white Teilvelum remains as cogent and oberseits clear fluted cuff. About this the stem is white striped hat to including it is fibrous - flaky kleinschupig up. The stem base is thickened bulbous, with no remote edge, but a gradual transition is present. At the transition region are little pronounced, like a ring around the stem arranged warts. The white flesh reddens slowly, is often maggoty and then assigns typical wine red discolored feeding tunnels on. It has an insignificant odor and a sweetish at first, later a little rough taste. The spore powder is white and amyloid.
Microscopic characteristics
The spores themselves are elliptical in shape with 7-9 × 5-7 micrometers.
Artabgrenzung
Pantherpilz
The blusher is similar to other brownish Wulstlingen. When collecting for food confusion with the deadly poisonous Panther mushroom ( A. pantherina ) is particularly severe. The Pantherpilz like the other similar species differs by the non- reddening flesh. Therefore, he usually has purer colors on the Velumresten, lollies and on the fins, and especially white meat steady. He also has a fluted brim and a ungeriefte cuff. He further distinguished by an odor of radish and usually a characteristic stepped stem base, but this is not always present.
Grey Amanita
The Grey Amanita (A. excelsa ) is edible. He also has a radish -like odor and not rötendes meat. The porphyry brown Amanita (A. porphyria ) has a recessed handle base. The rare poisonous king mushroom (A. regalis ) is a longitudinal section of a yellow zone under the hat skin.
Ecology
The blusher can be found in beech and oak mixed forests, in spruce-fir, spruce and pine forests as well as in parks and gardens. He prefers older stocks that are close to the final stage of their development ( climax vegetation ) are located. The fruiting bodies appear individually to socialize June to October, with appropriate conditions, into December.
The fungus is found on moderately moist to moist, acidic to neutral, rarely weakly alkaline rankers, Regosolen, brown and luvisols, podzols. These are usually scrawny or at most moderately base-and nutritious. The parent rock are colored or Keuper sandstone, base -poor silicates and corresponding loess and alluvial deposits.
The blusher is a mycorrhizal fungus in symbiosis mainly with spruce and beech trees.
Dissemination
The blusher is meridionally distributed in the Holarctic to boreal. So he was already in North and Central America, Europe (including the Canary Islands), Africa in Morocco and Algeria as well as in Asia in Israel, Asia Minor, established in the Caucasus, Siberia, Kamchatka, as well as in Korea and Japan.
In Europe, the species is probably widespread in all countries. It is found from Great Britain and France in the west to Belarus and Russia in the east, as well as of Iceland and Fennoscandia in the north to Spain, Italy, and Bulgaria to the south. Northward reaches the area until the 70th degree of latitude. In Germany, the fungus is spread everywhere dense and mean.
System
The blusher occurs in a variety of colors and can also be influenced by the weather assume different appearances. For example, there is a pure white variety. Furthermore, the var annulosulphurea a distinction that has a clear sulfur- yellow collar and stem tip. The fruiting bodies are usually slender and have a smaller, fluted rim hat.
Importance
The blusher is edible. But raw it is poisonous due to the heat-labile gastrointestinal toxins and hemolysins. When consuming the blusher should be well cooked. This is favored by finely cut pieces. The hat skin can be peeled off to taste refinement.