Terana caerulea

Blue beef mushroom Terana caerulea

The Blue beef mushroom ( Terana caerulea, Syn Pulcherricium caeruleum ) is a mushroom of the genus Terana. He is regarded as the world's only species of this genus.

Features

The Blue Cattle resupinate fungus forms ( the substrate present ), membranous, growing soft fruit body of striking violet-blue to almost a dark blue color, which is caused by a terphenyl. The surface of the fruit body is smooth to slightly verrucose, the Hyphenstruktur is monomithisch ( only one type hyphae consisting ). The spore powder is white. The fruiting bodies, growing together of several roundish spots up to one meter long coats, up to 5 mm thick and are usually found on the underside of the substrate.

Ecology

The Blue beef mushroom is a Saprobiont, which occurs in the initial phase to late Optimal rotting, dead stems upright or horizontal, to hanging or lying branches, in wood piles or exposed roots of fallen trees. Preferred substrates are hardwoods such as ash, maple, hazel, willow, hornbeam and oak. The fruiting bodies are perennial, young fruiting and growth occur in Central Europe, especially in March, more rarely in October before. The species prefers warm, moist deciduous forests and is rare in Germany about 400 m altitude.

Dissemination

The Blue beef mushroom is approximately in warm climates worldwide, he was found in New Zealand, Asia, Africa, North America, the Canary Islands and Europe. The European distribution area includes southern Europe and the oceanic embossed Western Europe (Portugal, Spain, France, southwestern UK). The Central European distribution area includes Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg, the current eastern border of the distribution is located on the Upper Rhine. An isolated occurrence is in Norway. The species has suffered in the 19th century complex losses and is now in Germany north of the 50th parallel, the Netherlands, Belgium and Scandinavia as missing.

Importance

As an edible mushroom species is not out of the question, forestry, it is insignificant. The Blue beef mushroom was chosen by the German Society of Mycology to mushroom in 2009 and advertises to increased attention to the type, as is expected in the course of general warming with its spread.