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Pinewood Gingertail

xeromphalina campanella

The Pinewood Gingertail is a bright orange mushroom that looks like a little bell! It grows on decaying wood, helping nature recycle nutrients.

Lebensraum: Found in pine forests, often on decaying wood.

Aussehen

The Pinewood Gingertail has a tiny, bell-shaped cap, often bright orange-yellow fading to reddish-brown. Its thin stem is the same fiery color, and the gills underneath are distinctively ribbed, radiating like spokes on a wheel.

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Pinewood Gingertail

Kategorie

Pilze

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Despite being tiny, these fungi are mighty forest recyclers.

Look closely at its gills; they look like tiny bicycle spokes!

Their scientific name, campanella, means 'little bell' in Latin.

You might spot them growing in huge clusters, like a mushroom party!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Pinewood Gingertail can glow faintly in the dark because it has special chemicals that create light without heat.

Pinewood Gingertail has powerful enzymes that help them break down tough dead wood, recycling nutrients back into the forest soil.

Pinewood Gingertail has a remarkably wiry stem that helps them stand upright, even after drying out.

Maße und Details

Höhe: 1-6 cm
Edibility: inedible
Cap Diameter: 0.5-2.5 cm
Wachstumssubstrat: wood
Saison: Spring to fall
Sporenfarbe: White

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

depends on

Eastern White Pine

Pinus strobus

Decomposes dead wood from this conifer species.

depends on

White Spruce

Picea glauca

Breaks down fallen logs and stumps of this tree.

eaten by

Common Fungus Gnat

Bradysia difformis

Larvae of this gnat sometimes feed on fungal tissue.

Merkmale

Einzelgänger

Einzelgänger leben den größten Teil ihres Lebens allein und interagieren mit Artgenossen nur zur Paarung oder zur Aufzucht der Jungen.

Farbenfroh

Farbenfroh beschreibt Organismen oder Objekte, die eine große Vielfalt an leuchtenden und deutlich erkennbaren Farben aufweisen.

Wald

Waldlebensräume sind terrestrische Lebensräume, die von dichtem Baumbestand dominiert werden und eine große Vielfalt an Pflanzen- und Tierarten beherbergen.