Phellinus pomaceus

Plum fire sponge ( Phellinus tuberculosus )

The Plum fire sponge ( Phellinus tuberculosus ) is a widespread and common species of fungus in the genus of fire sponges ( Phellinus ).

Features

The Plum fire sponge is perennial, about 3-8 cm wide and 1-3 cm thick, console -like fruiting bodies, which are often run down the underside of the substrate and form usually bulbous, one above the other standing Hutwülste. Rare completely flat had grown or pronounced hat-shaped fruiting bodies. Well-trained Hutoberseiten are roughly zoned beaded, otherwise uneven, smooth and matt structured. They are gray to gray - brown and may be colored by it growing algae green. The edge of the fruiting body is thick and gray to cinnamon brown. The pore area with about 4 to 5 roundish pores per mm is young and cinnamon in the growth zone, in older fruiting bodies gray - brown. The 2 to 3 mm long tubes are layered in older fruiting bodies. The tough, corky Trama is rust colored brown.

Ecology

The Plum fire sponge lives as a weak parasite or Saprobiont to sick or dead, nor ansitz boughs or still standing trunks of deciduous trees, mainly Prunus species such as plum and sloe, rare hazel and hawthorn are populated. The fungus causes a white rot in wood. Originally biotope of the Plum fire sponge are clear beech and mixed oak forests, but also hedges, forest edges and Schlehengebüsche. He is also in lowland forests, found on stream banks and forest road edges. In cultivated land, it can be found mainly in orchards, gardens, and parks. The multi-annual fruiting bodies can be found throughout the year.

Dissemination

The Plum fire sponge is mainly used in the Mediterranean climate and Temperate Zone areas of the Holarctic, its range extends into Asia from Asia Minor, the Caucasus and Iran to Siberia, Central Asia and Japan, North America comprises from Mexico to Canada. The species is also found in North Africa and the Canary Islands. In Europe, the plum - fire sponge from southern and western Europe comes up to the Hebrides and southern Scandinavia before, it is east to Hungary, Belarus, and to find in the Western Ukraine, individual resources exist to Central Russia and the Urals. In Germany the species is widespread throughout relatively dense.

Importance

As Weißfäulerreger he deconstructs the time his host, but he's just not very aggressive, attacked trees usually can survive for many years.

Swell

• German Joseph Krieglsteiner: The Great Mushrooms of Baden-Wuerttemberg, vol 1 Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart. 2000 ISBN. 3-800-13528-0.
• Josef Breitenbach, Fred Kränzlin. Fungi of Switzerland, Volume 2 Publisher Mykologia, Luzern (CH). In 1986. ISBN 3-856-04010-2.