Coprinopsis picacea

Woodpecker Tintling ( Coprinopsis picacea )

The Woodpecker Tintling ( Coprinopsis picacea ) is a species of fungus in the family Mürblingsverwandten.

Features

Macroscopic characteristics

The hat is initially ovoid, reaching a width of 7 cm. Later he stretched up and assumes a bell shape that is up to 8 cm wide. The hat is ribbed and colored white in very young mushrooms. He breaks down with age, so that the beige to dark brown base emerges. Remnants of white grayish, or cream-colored velum remain flaked on the hat stick, giving the impression of a woodpecker plumage arises. With increasing age, the brim is curled up and dissolves. The blades are very dense and are initially grauweißlich, then dyed pink to gray. Finally, they melt dripping and black. The stem is whitish and is between 12-20 (-30 ) cm long and 6-15 mm thick. It is hollow and not very stable, upward slightly tapered and covered with scales or fine fibers that form towards the base a Natterung. The flesh is whitish watery consistency of fibrous and sometimes has an unpleasant odor of mothballs. The taste is also unpleasant.

Microscopic characteristics

The elliptical, dark brown spores are 14 to 18.5 × 10-13 microns in size. The Cheilo and pleurocystidia are blown or bag - to tubular. They are up to 150 microns long and 50 microns wide.

Artabgrenzung

In the young stage, before the hat skin is broken, it resembles the young mop - Tintling.

Ecology and phenology

The Woodpecker Tintling occurs mainly in mesophilic beech forests. He is also found in heat- favored oak and oak -hornbeam forests. The fungus lives as Saprobiont on base-rich, rare neutral clay soils and Rendzinen. These are shallow and weak humus. The Spechttintling is a Kalkzeiger.

The Woodpecker Tintling is a relatively rare mushroom that is occasionally found from August to October, in November. He usually appears rather late.

Dissemination

The Woodpecker Tintling is common in Europe and in Australia. In Europe, the territory of Great Britain and France ranges in the west to Poland, Hungary and Romania to the east and south to Spain and the Balearic Islands, Italy and Greece to Denmark in the north. In Germany the species is to be found scattered to locally common. Exceptions are the state of Saxony and the altitudes in southern Germany, where the species is rare.