Serpula himantioides

Wilder dry rot ( Serpula himantioides )

The Wild dry rot ( Serpula himantioides ) is a mushroom of the genus house sponges ( Serpula ).

Features

The Wild dry rot is 5-15 cm wide, weichfleischige fruiting bodies, which can be easily detached from the substrate and become brittle in the dry state. The top of the mushroom is smooth in young mushrooms, later it is wrinkled. The color of the fruiting bodies varies with the age of the fungus: in young fruit bodies, it is easy to purple, then changed to mustard yellow and is at the end olivbraun.Der edge of the fruiting body is weißfaserig - woolly, later with a purple tone.

Ecology

The Wild dry rot is a wood saprobiontischer resident who grows mainly in various forests and woods at the bottom of lying trunks and thick branches or stumps, its fruiting bodies appear in the late initial and early optimum phase. The species colonized especially wood that is in contact with the ground or located in damp piles. Rare is the Wild dry rot before at obstructed damp wood. Inside of sheds or similar buildings he rarely appears, then usually brought in with firewood or similar material. Its optimum growth temperature is 20 to 25 ° C, so that growth of the fungus is achieved approximately seven millimeters per day. The Wilde House sponge grows preferentially on coniferous wood, hardwood, it is rarely populated. Fresh fruiting bodies appear in Central Europe, especially in autumn and stay up into the winter get.

Dissemination

The distribution of the wild dry rot is unclear, in Europe it is found in central and northern Europe, in Germany it is scattered in all federal states.

Importance

The Wild dry rot can occur as a timber pest, but is less destructive than dry rot.

Swell

• G.J. Krieglsteiner: The Great Mushrooms of Baden-Württemberg, Volume 1, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3528-0.