Trametes pubescens

Velvety Tramete

The Velvet Tramete ( Trametes pubescens ) is a species of fungus in the genus of the Real Trameten.

Features

The Velvet Tramete is 3-10 cm wide thin fan-shaped fruiting body with a sharp outer edge which are imbricate in large groups. The fruiting bodies are first dyed pure white, are aged cream to light gray ocher. On drying the fruit bodies are fairly light and brittle, the color changes to yellow. The top is dull and feinsamtig hairy with indicated zoning, on the bottom there are the short, white to cream- colored tubes. With 3-4 per mm, the Velvet Tramete has relatively fine, rounded - square shaped pores.

Ecology

The Velvet Tramete is a saprobiontischer wood inhabitants, which produces a white rot in the infested wood. Be colonized dead standing and lying trunks and branches that can be berindet or even the bark have already been lost. The species colonized hardwoods, primarily alder, birch and beech. The fruiting bodies appear throughout the year. The Velvet Tramete occurs mainly in air and ground moist deciduous forests, which can be flooded periodically or spontaneously, such as fracture and riparian forests, willow bushes or shady and moist deciduous forests, sometimes in parks.

Dissemination

The Velvet Tramete comes in Asia from Siberia to Pakistan and India before, east to Korea and the United States and Canada. In Africa, it has been demonstrated in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya. In Europe, the species is found in the temperate and boreal regions. In Germany the species is very rare and only more common in the Alpine and pre-Alpine area.

Importance

The Velvet Tramete is not edible mushroom; as a timber pest they hardly occurs in appearance.