Cyathus olla

Pot Expensive Ling ( Cyathus olla )

The pot - Expensive Expensive Ling Ling or Lead Grey ( Cyathus olla ) is a mushroom of the genus Expensive Linge.

Appearance

The fruiting bodies are 0.7-1.2 cm, obovate to cylindrical, sealed in the immature state with a gray Epiphragma, the outer wall is covered with fine hair. The peridium shows last at the end of maturity usually to the outside and smooth inside and (lead ) - gray to brown. The ellpipsoidischen to ovoid, 11-12 x 7-8 microns large spores are in gray, lens-shaped, 2-3 mm wide Peridolen.

Ecology

The pot - Expensive Ling comes as Saprobiont mostly outside the forest in fields, gardens and grasslands on pieces of wood or residues from grasses and herbs before, often seemingly on earth growing. Especially like it grows on bark mulch. The pot - Expensive Ling is distributed nearly worldwide, in Europe, it comes from the Mediterranean to Ireland, Scotland and central Scandinavia before.

Importance

The species occurs as an edible mushroom out of the question and has no economic significance.