Mutinus elegans

Posh Hundsrute ( Mutinus elegans)

The Posh Hundsrute ( Mutinus elegans ) is a species of fungus in the genus of the dog Rods ( Mutinus ).

Features

The fruiting bodies of the nobles Hundsrute are initially grow underground, 2-4 cm high and 2 cm wide witches eggs with pale brownish exterior and strong, branched Mycelstrang. The breaking forth from the Hexenei receptaculum is long up to 15 cm, it is at the base of 1-2 cm thick and runs up to a point. It is hollow and porous chambered and almost everywhere colored red. It is often curved or lying on the ground. The olive green, slimy gleba covers the upper part of the Receptaculums irregular. The Posh Hundsrute smells as opposed to commoners Hundsrute strongly of carrion.

Ecology

The entrained Posh Hundsrute occurs only in anthropogenically influenced sites in Central Europe. As saprobiontischer bottom dwellers that found in garden lawns, in parks and along path edges.

Dissemination

The Posh Hundsrute is a native North American species which has been found in Central Europe usually only fickle in Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland and Germany. Outside Europe, it also occurs in Japan.

Importance

The Posh Hundsrute is out of the question as an edible mushroom.

Swell

• Andreas Gminder, Armin Kaiser, German Josef Krieglsteiner, Wulfard winter Hoff: Mushroom Fungi: bars, clubs, coral and stubble mushrooms, abdominal mushrooms, Röhrlings and Täublingsartige. In: GJ Krieglsteiner (eds. ): The Great Mushrooms of Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2, Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-8001-3531-8.
• Josef Breitenbach, Fred Kränzlin: Fungi of Switzerland. Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes. Vol 2, Mykologia, Luzern (CH), 1986, ISBN 3-85604-020- X ( 415 pages; 528 species with descriptions, location and finding information, micro drawings and color images ).