Pycnoporus cinnabarinus

Northern cinnabar sponge ( Pycnoporus cinnabarinus )

The Northern Cinnabar Cinnabar sponge sponge or short ( Pycnoporus cinnabarinus ) is a species of fungus in the family Stielporlingsverwandten. Although the fungus is not one of the "real" Trameten ( Trametes ), he is also known as vermilion Tramete or Zinnobertramete.

Features

The Northern cinnabar sponge has a 2-10 cm wide and up to 6 cm console shaped protruding from the Anwachsstelle, 1-2 cm thick fruiting bodies. The surface is irregular nodular and warty. The color is usually a conspicuous vermilion, and orange-red specimens before coming. With caustic potash solution, the flesh discolored blackish. 1 ( -2) -year-old fruiting bodies are concentrically zoned indistinct and have a slightly wavy edge bent. The square and elongated pores are arranged labyrinthine and relatively fine (2-3 per mm). The meat is tough, leathery - hard, corky and orange- colored. Smell and taste are normal.

Ecology

The Northern cinnabar sponge is a saprobiontischer wood resident who settled hardwoods; preferred substrate is the common beech in Central Europe. In addition, other hardwoods, rare conifers are populated. And forms part of the vulgar and the split gill Striegeligen Tramete to the colonizers of dead, still standing or lying trunks or stems, horizontal light-exposed stems, branches and twigs, but can still occur in later stages of decomposition. The Northern cinnabar sponge occurs in sparse, more down- dry beech and hornbeam - oak forests. As a very light-and heat -loving species rarely occurs within closed stands of trees, but preferred clearcuts, clearings, forest edges, hedgerows, orchards, parks and gardens.

Dissemination

The Northern cinnabar sponge comes in the Holarctic from the warmer prior to the boreal zone, it is found in North Asia, North America and Canada. In South America and South Asia ( India), it is rarely found. In Europe, the nature of Spain and Italy spread to 71 ° and to the Ural Mountains. In the Atlantic region, it is rare, it essentially lacks in France, the Netherlands and Ireland, in the eastern Great Britain and Denmark, it is rare. In Germany the species is spread throughout the country, but lacks in some areas of North West Germany as well as in the central and southern Germany coniferous forest areas.

The Northern cinnabar sponge has experienced in the past strong inventory fluctuations whose causes are not fully understood. After she was in the first half of the 19th century often appears and spreads, it took until about 1960 from very strong, and will spread again. One possible reason could be the lower use of reading wood, which originated with timber and brushwood piles suitable locations.

Importance

The Northern cinnabar sponge is not a Mushroom, as Holzzersetzer he is insignificant.