Royoporus badius

Maroon Stielporling ( Polyporus badius )

The Maroon Stielporling or short Maroon Polypore ( Polyporus badius ) is a species of fungus in the family Stielporlingsverwandten. The name refers to the hat color (Latin badius = chestnut ). Other names are Black and Red Süßriechender Stielporling. The fruiting bodies can be more than 20 cm wide. Striking are also the top for contrasting whitish underside with the pores and blackish stem base.

Features

The Maroon Porling forms in pileus and stipe articulated, individually sociable standing up fruiting bodies with a 2-25 cm broad hat, which can sometimes be grown to several. The hat is round ( circular to kidney shaped ), maroon colored ( towards the edge often slightly lighter ), smooth, glabrous and shiny. The brim is curled up fluttery, sharp and thin, the white underside is very fine (5-8 m per mm) rounded to angular pores occupied the run down on the stem. The tube layer is 0.5-2 mm thick. The stem is centrally located to the side, 1-5 cm long and 0.5-2 cm thick, hairy and velvety brown-black colored, the color of the stem is well demarcated against the white pores. The meat is tough and thin. The fungus smells pleasantly sweet.

Artabgrenzung

From the closely related Yellow Lion Stielporling and the Blackfoot Stielporling of which he is macroscopically difficult to separate under certain circumstances, it differs sure microscopically by buckleless hyphae.

Ecology and phenology

The Maroon Stielporling is a holzbewohnender, white rot -causing Saprobiont that can colonize a wide range of hardwoods ( in Central Europe, beech, willow, poplar, ash, alder ). The species prefers moist air and ground beech, beech-fir or hornbeam - oak forests, riparian forests, poplar plantations and willows. The fruiting bodies appear on dead trunks, stems or branches, sometimes very high, usually at a considerable distance to the ground.

The fruiting bodies appear from spring to autumn, after Krieglsteiner in two waves ( late May / early June and late August to early October).

Dissemination

The Maroon Stielporling was in Asia ( Caucasus, Central Asia, Iran, northern India, east to Korea and Japan), North America (up to Alaska and southern Greenland ) and Europe found. In Europe the kind of northern Spain, northern Italy and Croatia before coming up to the Hebrides, Denmark, Estonia and southern Sweden.

Importance

No Mushroom, economically insignificant