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Tartuffe, bladders or scleroderma?



Scleroderma citrinum
This winter I was in the mountains and I found by accident while I was entering the woods for a walk, in a very sheltered escarpment and full of roots, where I noticed a bump and I realized that it was a fungus, perfectly preserved by freezing.
I picked it gently but I must say that it was so cold that a portion of frozen snow remained attached to the house when I cut!
This fungus is to be found in different habitats from early summer until the middle of winter, the woods in the countryside, in the newly plowed fields or in city parks, bringing to question sul'origine of the species, it looks like it especially for the appearance, many 'blistering', variously seen the amount of variety of the latter, (create
'Lycoperdon' example; 'L. piriformis' , 'L. perlatum' , 'edible' and the like), but part of the family 'sclerodermataceae' .
up among the roots of trees and in ravines, can also vaguely remember truffle
'Whitebait' , if fungaioli are not experts, for the golden color and thick scales on fruiting body with the stem and almost non-existent. usually prefers to be born on tree trunks, rotting leaves or roots, especially deciduous trees, especially in the chestnut.
Being a fungus that usually found in groups of several specimens, it becomes even weed.

It 's a special mushroom for another curiosity: has a parasite which helps to counteract its expansion, not a vegetable, but a more the fungus' Xerocomus parasiticus' , similar to 'boletus' , which makes the fruiting body sterile. When I was a child I was convinced it was a black truffle because if it is not the young man inside quickly becomes dark and stays firm longer than the blistering that matures lose consistency and explode taking out the spores.


derives its name:
'Scleroderma' from the greek 'skleros' hard and 'derma' skin that is tough and leathery skin, and from the Latin ' citrum' , lemon for the Its most common color. The 'serfdom' that is, the housing is generally spherical or ellipsoidal, sometimes slightly irregular with a hint at the bottom of stem from which branches of small roots. In full maturity also the 'scleroderma' is split on the upper surface almost split in two and leaving the spores that spread in the environment.
As mentioned above the surface is covered with cracks like squamette, pale yellow to a brown color.
Within the fruiting body, that the flesh is white now, then darkens to become mottled gray to black.


has an elastic, slightly chewy, intense aroma, which pulverizes fully ripe, releasing the spores of the same color.
The bark of the fungus very thick, 3-4 mm, as can be seen in the pictures, is whitish, tapering when tears.

E 'considered a poisonous mushroom, because species if consumed when it darkens, in large quantities can cause severe gastrointestinal upset.



Some synonyms: 'Scleroderma aurantiacum sensu Carleton Rea', 'Ramsbottom', 'Scleroderma aurantium sensu auct', 'Scleroderma vulgare Hornem' ...











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