Laccaria amethystina

Violet Lacktrichterling ( Laccaria amethystea )

The Purple or Amethystblaue Lacktrichterling ( Laccaria amethystea ) is a species of fungus in the family of Heath truffle relatives. Also known under the name Violet Bluebird Bluebird short or fungus is like all paint hopper Linge edible. He owes his consistently violet staining the name, very strong violet to purple fails when wet and when dry to light violet ausblasst to almost white.

Features

Macroscopic characteristics

The Purple Lacktrichterling is small to medium in size. Its main distinguishing feature is the lush violet in fresh wet paint; with dryness of the mushroom fades, however, and can be almost white. The hat with 2-6 cm diameter is curved to flat and with age often wavy and appear umbilicate. The 4-10 cm long and 4-8 mm wide, stiff stem is usually slightly fibrous and covered at the base with Myzelfilz. It has relatively few and far low bars that are colored purple like the whole mushroom. In contrast to the hat but their color is retained during drying, they do not bleach whitish. They are plump, waxy and quite grown wide. The spore powder is white and inamyloid. The meat is permeated violettlich and watery. It smells and tastes unremarkable except imperceptible.

Microscopic characteristics

The spores have a roundish - oval in shape and 7-10 microns in diameter. The surface is covered with sharp spines, which are about 2 microns long. A germ pore absent.

Ecology and phenology

From summer to fall, he is particularly widespread in deciduous and coniferous forests. There he grows in moist places on deciduous and coniferous litter.

Importance

The Purple Lacktrichterling like all paint funnel pieces suitable edible and with its mild taste than edible mushroom. Specimens with pure violet color are more suitable for consumption. However, Marcel Bon has in Pareys book of mushrooms out that among others, the Violet Lacktrichterling still has very high cesium -137 levels after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in 1986.

Swell

• Ewald Gerhardt: Mushrooms, BLV manual. BLV, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8354-0053-3
• Marcel Bon: Pareys book of mushrooms. Cosmos ( Cosmos Franckh ) 2005, ISBN 3-440-09970-9
• R. M. Dähncke: 200 mushrooms. 5th edition, published daily paper Aargau, Aarau 1992, ISBN 3-85502-145-7