Hygrophorus latitabundus

Big Pine Schneck Ling ( Hygrophorus latitabundus )

The Great Pine Schneck Ling ( Hygrophorus latitabundus, Syn: Hygrophorus fuscoalbus ( Lasch ) Fr ) is a mushroom of the family of Schneck Ling relatives ( Hygrophoraceae ). The rare Schneck Ling occurs in pine forests and has a preference for calcareous soils. The large and vigorous fruiting bodies are edible and appear in autumn. The pale gray-brown to dark olive-brown hat is very slimy when wet. Other names for this fungus are Weißschuppiggestiefelter or gray White Schneck Ling. The Latin epithet latitabundus means " hiding cautious ".

Description

The fruiting body of the worm -form are large and powerful, and completely covered by a layer of mucus. The cap is 5-15 cm broad, at first convex and slightly recessed until later spread almost like a funnel. In the center it is usually hunched dull. The hat color is pale mottled gray-brown to olive-brown, darker in the center than at the brighter edge. Characteristic is the slimy shiny, smooth hat skin, especially in damp weather. If dry, the hat skin is rather dull. The brim is long time curled and bent down later.

The white, removed lamella are thick, waxy and grew wide at the stem or running slightly down it. They are whitish to pale cream colored and often intermingled with intermediate fins. The slats are smooth cutting.

The white stem is 5-10 cm long and 2-4 cm thick. He is cylindrical to bulbous shaped and fully and festfleischig. It is covered by a thick layer of mucus. In the upper third of a clear annular zone is visible. Above the ring he is white and covered with white flakes, below the ring he is genattert very slimy and olive brown. The stem base is often pointed.

The white flesh is firm, smells slightly aromatic and tastes pleasantly mild and bland. Dropping you some ammonia solution on the handle meat, it changes color at the stem base orange to rusty red and then brown and yellow ocher on the stem tip. With 30 -percent potassium hydroxide solution, the stalk turns yellow flesh.

The spore powder is whitish, elliptical spores themselves are 8-12 microns long and 6-8 microns wide and hyaline. The hyphae of the hat skin only contain intracellular pigment, sometimes they are filled with oily Exsudatbatzen.

Among the many species of the genus Hygrophorus are some that can be confused with the Great Pine Schneck Ling.

• The fruiting bodies of Olivbraungestiefelten Schneck compact ( Hygrophorus persoonii ) look very similar, but the species occurs only in deciduous forests with oaks (Quercus ) and beech (Fagus sylvatica ) in front. His flesh turns greenish with ammonia solution.
• The olive-brown worm Ling ( Hygrophorus olivaceoalbus ) is slender and bears in the lower part of the white stalk an irregularly serrated, brownish cross bands. He is a typical spruce companion that is often found in moss beds. His flesh turns orange with ammonia solution.

Ecology

The large pine Schneck Ling is a mycorrhizal fungus, the almost exclusively with pines ( Pinus ) enters into a symbiotic relationship. You can find the fungus therefore in sparse, grassy forests or pine forests, forest edges, on juniper pine and heathens on base-rich calcareous grasslands. The Schneck Ling like flat ground, somewhat compressed, warm, moderately dry to fresh, basic and relatively nutrient-poor soils over limestone or calcareous marl.

The fruiting bodies appear in troops in late summer to autumn. It is a rare species, but where it occurs, it can be quite common.

Dissemination

The Schneck Ling is a Holarctic, submeridionale temperat to subboreale kind in North America (USA, Canada ) and Europe occurs. Its distribution area extends across southern and central Europe. It has been demonstrated in the Balearic Islands, in Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland and Belarus. But it also occurs in the Republic of Macedonia, Greece and Turkey.

In Germany it is mainly in the southern and central German mountain and hill country spread. The Schneck Ling missing in Hesse, Saxony, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern and Schleswig -Holstein. In Lower Saxony, it is very rare.

System

The Great Pine Schneck Ling is placed in the section Olivaceoumbrini. The representatives of the section have greasy to slimy caps and stems. Their hats are dark brown gray, olive or orange. The stem is ringed genattert or more or less clearly.

Importance

The Great Pine Schneck Ling regarded as a good edible mushroom, the hat skin, however, should be deducted. In Spain it is often collected and sold in markets. In Germany he should instead be collected because of its strong hazard ( RL2).

In folk medicine, Catalonia is the Schneck Ling, who is known there as " Mocosa negra ", ie "Black brat ", used for intestinal diseases, diarrhea, and stomach ulcers. In this case, the fungus boil off, usually administered in the form of a soup.