Trametes hirsuta

Striegelige Tramete ( Trametes hirsuta )

The Striegelige Tramete ( Trametes hirsuta ) is a polypore mushroom species of the genus Trametes rights.

Features

The Striegelige Tramete is pretty flat constant, the substrate imbricated standing 3-8, in exceptional cases up to 15 cm wide fruiting bodies. The fruiting bodies are pure white to gray or cremeweißlich, some with brownish growth zone, the zoned wavy, coarse striegelig hairy surface may be colored green by algae. The underside of the fruiting body is covered with roundish, relatively coarse (about 0.5 mm wide ) pores. The tubes are relatively short and whitish cream color, sometimes a lighter gray shimmer is present. The meat is thin, dry and tough it consists of a thin gray upper and a lower, thicker, white layer, which are separated by a black line, smell and taste are normal.

Ecology

The Striegelige Tramete is a saprobiontischer wood inhabitants, produces a white rot in the substrate by decomposition of lignin. The species colonized horizontal and vertical branches and tree stands and stumps on airborne and ground dry, sun-exposed sites. It comes on the edge of deciduous forests, in plantations and in tree plantations, hedgerows and woodland edge companies, in clearings, in gardens, parks and along streets. Your main substrate is the common beech, next to a wide range of other hardwoods is colonized, of softwood they rarely occurs. The fruiting bodies are annual, and to find throughout the year, the spores are formed at temperatures between 0 and 15 ° C, sporulation begins in the fall at sufficiently low temperatures and lasts for about 9 months, when the weather is frost free. The bulk of the spore is formed in the spring.

Dissemination

The range of the species includes Europe (except Greece, Albania, the Balearic Islands, Portugal, Ireland and Iceland ) and Asia ( South Siberia, Iran, Turkey) and North America. In Germany the species is widespread, but is not everywhere in the same density.

Importance

The Striegelige Tramete is not an edible mushroom, wood pest as it occurs scarcely in evidence.