Clitocybe odora

Green anise Trichterling ( Clitocybe odora )

The Green anise Trichterling ( Clitocybe odora ) is a species of fungus in the family of Tricholoma relatives. Its probably the most striking feature is the anise smell. It grows in small groups in coniferous and deciduous forests.

Features

Macroscopic characteristics

The Green anise Trichterling has grown mostly a gray-green color, which can occur also white copies, hat and arm are approximately equal dyed. Young mushrooms may have a bluish tint. In high humidity, the color will appear darker, brighter when dry. Early on, the hat is wavy pitched with a depression in the middle. He is between 3-10 cm wide. The slats are far more likely to stand and walk a bit down the stem. The cut of meat is pale greenish and produces a sweet smell of anise. When drying, it loses this characteristic odor. The fungus can also be strongly deformed, for example, with humps on the hat. Likelihood of confusion in white copies with another, also smelling of anise funnel Lingen, some species of which are poisonous.

Microscopic characteristics

The colorless spores are 6-7 microns long and 3-4 microns wide.

Ecology

Habitat the Green anise - funnel -form are deciduous and coniferous forests. There, the fruiting bodies of autumn appear well into the winter and can still be found even in January. It grows along roots and then usually in small groups. On the east coast of America it is mainly found along with oaks.

Dissemination

The Green anise Trichterling is widely used in Asia, Europe and America.

Importance

The Green anise Trichterling is processed edible, poisonous raw.