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Hericium alpestre
Hericium alpestre
Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

ID: 0000 0000 1112 0647 (2012-11-12)

Copyright © 2012 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

 
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  • date of photo  Oct 23, 2012
  • latitude 46.33123   longitude 13.52266     View on Google Maps.
  • location   Bovec basin, north side of Bovec golf playground, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)
  • notes   Slo.: jelkov bradovec - Habitat: Maintenance depot of Bovec golf playground, flat terrain, ruderal place, north oriented side of a container for sand made of massive wooden beams already partly decomposed, fairly sunny place, humid air conditions, near Gljun stream, limestone bedrock, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 370 m (1.200 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: old treated beams of conifer wood, supposedly Abies alba, possibly also Picea abies, certainly not a broad leaved tree. - Comments: A rare find and in addition on a very unusual place. Two fruitbodies found, width up to 18 cm, spikes length 15 (20) mm, SP whitish, light beige (oac900-oac851), flesh whitish; taste mild, pleasant, mushroomy; smell mild, mushroomy. - Spores finely warty, barely seen with my microscope. Dimensions: 5.5 (SD = 0.2) x 5.2 (SD = 0.2) micr., Q = 1.06 (SD = 0.05), n = 30. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, oil, magnification 1.000 x, in water. Camera AmScope MA500. - Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by 'R' representing a rare species. - Ref.: (1) A. Bernicchia & F. Padovan, Preliminary distributional data on Hericiaceae (Basidiomycetes) in Italy http://www.herbmedit.org/bocconea/5-853.pdf (2) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Württembergs, Band 2., Ulmer (2000), p 99. (3) http://champignons.moselle.free.fr/cha/hericium_flagellum_1.htm . (4) http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=469436 . (5) http://www.grzyby.pl/gatunki/Hericium_flagellum.htm .
  • camera   Canon G11, 6.1-30mm/f2.8-4.5
  • contributor's ID #  Bot_671/2012_IMG1824
  • photo category: Fungi - fungi

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