Volvariella bombycina

Woolly Scheid Ling ( Volvariella bombycina )

The Woolly Scheid Ling ( Volvariella bombycina ) is a species of fungus in the genus of Scheidl Inge ( Volvariella ) in the family of roof fungus relatives ( Pluteaceae ).

Features

The Woolly Scheid Ling forms large ( cap diameter 5 to 12, in exceptional cases up to 20 cm), divided into hat and stem fruiting bodies. The dünnfleischige hat is young hemispherical to spherical and conical to campanulate in age - convex, old and spread out with a blunt hump. The hat surface is white to cream-colored and finely silky, covered with radially arranged adjacent or slightly protruding Faserschüppchen. The variety flaviceps is already yellowish young. The hat brim surmounted the slats. The slats are very crowded, they are 8 to 10 mm wide; they are young white until speckled brown aged pink. The handle is full and brittle, it is 6 to 20 inches long and 0.7 to 2 centimeters thick, he does not have a ring is thickened club shaped at the base and appears as grafted into the volva. Its surface is whitish and ocher aged slightly. The company resulting from the universal veil baggy and membranous volva usually lasts until the middle of the stem, it is limp, torn, durable and thick-skinned, whitish young, later yellowish to brownish ocher, partly outside felderig tearing up. The volva often mired in the substrate.

Ecology

The Woolly Scheid Ling is a saprobiontischer to parasitic inhabitants of wood still alive, standing or felled trees already. It may appear from stem wounds and stem caves in height of several meters. Its fruit body occasionally occur also apparent in roots and from rotten stumps. The thermophilic fungus to fructification naturally inhabits lowland forests. But he is also reported from parks, cemeteries and on roadsides. As the substrate serve his supposedly highly resistant to cold mycelium various hardwoods, such as maple, horse chestnut, walnut, poplar, hornbeam and other species. The maximum variety grows well on coniferous wood. The prominent singly or in small clumps fruiting bodies appear in central Europe from June to October.

Dissemination

The Woolly Scheid Ling is widespread in Australia, South Africa, South America and the Holarctic. In the Holarctic, the species is widespread in the meridional to temperate regions, it was south Siberia, Japan, the United States and Canada found in the Caucasus region. In Europe, it comes from South and South-East Europe to the Benelux countries and England, north to Fennoscandia up to 60, sometimes up to 61 Latitude ago. In Eastern Europe it is found in Belarus and Russia to the Urals. In Germany, the species occurs throughout the area are rare.

Importance

The Woolly Scheid Ling comes as edible mushroom out of the question and should be spared because of its rarity, it is dying by the removal of dead and fallen trees at risk potentially.

Swell

• GJ Krieglsteiner, A. Gminder: The Great Mushrooms of Baden-Württemberg. Volume 4, p 277; Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3281-8
• J. Breitenbach, F. Kränzlin: Fungi of Switzerland, Volume 4 Publisher Mykologia, Lucerne 1995, ISBN 3-85604-040-4