Lycoperdon echinatum

Igelstäubling ( Lycoperdon echinatum )

The Igelstäubling or Igelbovist ( Lycoperdon echinatum ) is a mushroom of the family of mushroom relatives ( Agaricaceae ).

Features

The fruiting body is spherical with pointed base, up to 6 cm in diameter, of fuchsrotbrauner color. He is busy with light yellow-brown, up to 0.5 cm long and about three or four standing in tufts, soft curved spines, and later fall from this and leave on the surface of a reticular pattern. The flesh is white young, later tanning, and finally transforms into dark brown spore dust is exhausted through an opening at the apex.

Feed value

Jung edible, as long as the inner white is colored.

Occurrence

Mainly on calcareous soils in deciduous forests, especially under beech from July. The fungus is rare.

Swell

• Jean -Marie Polese: Pocket Guide mushrooms, Cologne, 1999, ISBN 3-8290-2906-3