Hygrocybe virginea
Virgin Ellerling ( Cuphophyllus virgineus )
The Virgin Ellerling ( Cuphophyllus virgineus ) is a species of fungus in the family Schneck Ling relatives. He prefers to grow lean, mossy grass surfaces and forms in the fall of small, largely monochrome - whitish and partly glassy translucent fruiting bodies, which is why the fungus is also called Glazed or Snow White Ellerling. It is edible.
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Features
Macroscopic characteristics
The fruiting body usually grow in clusters. The dünnfleischige hat measures 1.5-3 (-5 ) cm in diameter and is curved young, later flat or slightly depressed in the middle and can have a slight hump. The surface is ( ivory ) white and discolors easily in humid weather ( Hygrophanität ). The edges are serrated translucent when wet. The thick, waxy, cream -colored fins are removed and run on a stick down. Their cutting edges are smooth. The stem is 2-5 (-6 ) cm long and 3-5 mm thick. It is substantially cylindrical in shape and tapered at the bottom. The inside is initially fleshy, later, however, stuffed to hollow. Outside it is smooth, hat colors and sometimes / at the base - pink brownish colored. The aqueous meat is odorless and tastes mild. The spore powder is white and shows no color reaction with Jodreagenzien ( inamyloid ).
Microscopic characteristics
The superficial smooth spores measure 7-11 × 4-5.5 microns and are shaped more or less elliptical. The hat skin is a thin Ixocutis.
Artabgrenzung
Very similar is the Juchten Ellerling ( Cuphophyllus russocoriaceus ), which can not be recommended as edible mushroom. It differs well its fine smell of Russia leather. The similar White Meadow Ellerling ( Cuphophyllus pratensis var pallidus ) typically has larger fruit body and is not hygrophanous. Dangerous would be confused with the potentially fatal field Trichterling ( Clitocybe dealbata ).
Ecology and phenology
The species probably lives in symbiosis with mosses Communities in lean grass surfaces, preferably in calcareous soils, and in North America in forests.
You fruktifiziert September to December.
Dissemination
The Virgin Ellerling is widespread in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere and is found throughout Europe and North America and northern Asia, but was also found in Australia. The species is more common than their mostly endangered congeners and is not endangered as.
Systematics and Taxonomy
The 1821 sanctioned by Elias Magnus Fries scientific description comes from a work published in 1781 by Franz Xaver von Wulfen, where he described it as Agaricus virgineus. After various other class assignments he was assigned by Alexander E. Kovalenko the genus Ellerlinge ( Cuphophyllus ). Also widespread is the assignment to the genus of the wax caps ( Hygrocybe ) by Peter Darbishire Orton and Roy Watling, which does not appear tenable for genetic studies. The 1772 first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli taxon Hygrocybe nivea is now regarded as synonymous.
The epithet " virgineus " is a Latin adjective meaning " virgin" in terms of a pure white appearance.
Importance
It is edible and is used as an edible mushroom.