Tremella
Yellow Gold Quaking Ling ( Tremella mesenteric )
The dither Linge ( Tremella ) is a fungal genus in the family shake Ling relatives.
The type species is the gold Yellow Aspen Ling ( Tremella mesenteric ).
Features
The fruiting body is gelatinous to cartilaginous and horny in the dry state, when moisture is supplied resurgent, lobed or with brain -like convolutions and wrinkles, rarely also in the form of cushions and without papillenartige warts ( distinguishing feature compared to the genus Exidia ). The hymenium covers the whole fruit body.
Microscopically, the genus is characterized by a monomitische Hyphenstruktur with cylindrical, colorless ( hyaline ) whose hyphae septa usually have buckles. The basidia are globose to ellipsoid and obliquely septate to vertical, they can 2 - or 4- celled be. The thin-walled spores are globose to breitellipsoid, but can also sausage - or bean-shaped ( allantoid ) be formed, they are smooth, colorless ( hyaline ) and with Jodreagenzien not dyeable ( inamyloid ). Many dithering Nerd species conidia are formed at a young hymenium before the formation of mature basidia.
Ecology
Jitter pieces are mycoparasites and live on the fruiting bodies and / or the mycelia holzbewohnender fungi, including, for example, carbon berries, mushrooms and layer Zystidenrindenpilze. You tap on haustoria to the hyphae of their hosts. Previously jitter compacts were mainly as Saprobionten, only a few species such as the alabaster Kernling and flour discs dither Ling was known a parasitic way of life.
Species
The globally widespread genus includes about 80 (after Dörfelt about 120 ) species. In Europe, approximately 60 species are given or expected. As with many fungal genera separation and label them the species are controversial.
Sheet -like jitter Ling ( T. foliacea ) at its host Striegeliger layer fungus ( Stereum hirsutum )
Yellow Gold Quaking Ling ( T. mesenteric ) on ash Zystidenrindenpilz ( Peniophora limitata )
Alabaster Kernling ( T. encephala ) on bleeding Softwood layer fungus ( Stereum sanguinolentum )
Alabaster Kernling in cross-section: The white core is deformed host fruit bodies.
Importance
Some species of the genus such as the sheet -like jitter Ling ( Tremella foliacea ) are edible. The silver ear ( Tremella Fuciformis ), a tropical species, is cultivated as an edible mushroom.