Xylaria polymorpha

Multifarious wooden club ( Xylaria polymorpha )

The Multifarious wooden club ( Xylaria polymorpha ) is an ascomycete from the kind of wooden clubs ( Xylaria ).

Features

The Multifarious wooden club is relatively large (3-8 cm high and 1-3 cm wide ) irregular club-shaped or flat - lobed from vegetative mycelium existing Stromata (collective fruiting bodies ), in which the actual fruiting bodies ( perithecia ) are recessed row. The mostly standing in tufts collecting fruiting bodies are young gray - brown to light brown, sometimes dusted white by conidiospores black in mature specimens, dotted feinwarzig by the einsenkten perithecia. The interior of the stroma is white and fibrous, the smell pleasant mushroom-like.

Ecology

The Multifarious wooden club usually lives saprobiontisch on stumps of deciduous trees, where beech is preferred in addition they can grow as a weak parasite on living trees.

Importance

The Multifarious wooden club comes as edible mushroom out of the question, as Holzzersetzer it is not important.

Swell

• H. E. Laux: The Great Cosmos mushroom guide. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-440-08457-4
• F. Breitenbach, J. Kränzlin: Fungi of Switzerland. Bd 1 Ascomycetes. Mykologia, Lucerne 1984, ISBN 3-85604-011-0.