Mokhovik tree: description and photo

A very rare mushroom, because of this it is not well studied. The wood flywheel was first described in 1929 by Joseph Kallenbach. It received the generally accepted Latin designation thanks to Albert Pilate in 1969. The scientist correctly classified it and named it Buchwaldoboletus lignicola.

Mokhovik tree: description and photo

Buchwaldo literally means “beech forest”. However, the fungus is a saprotroph of coniferous wood species. This means that this part of the generic name is given in honor of the Danish mycologist Niels Fabricius Buchwald (1898-1986). The root boletus comes from the Greek. bolos means “piece of clay”.

Mokhovik tree: description and photo

The specific name is derived from lat. “lignum” – “tree” and “colere” – “to inhabit”. 

Mokhovik tree: description and photo

In scientific works there are such names of the fungus:

  • Boletus lignicola;
  • Gyrodon lignicola;
  • Phlebopus lignicola;
  • Pulveroboletus lignicola;
  • Xerocomus lignicola.

What do tree flywheels look like?

Mushroom color is beige, gold or brown. Young representatives of the tree flywheel are lighter. Mushroom spore powder olive hue. Bruises appear on injured, cut areas. They form slowly.

Mokhovik tree: description and photo

head

Diameter 2,5-9 (13) cm. Initially smooth, velvety, convex. Has the shape of a hemisphere. During the growth of the fungus, it cracks, bends. The color becomes saturated. The edges of the cap of the wood moss fly become wavy, slightly twisted.

Mokhovik tree: description and photo

Hymenophore

tubular type. The tubules inside are adherent or slightly converging. Initially they are lemon yellow, then yellow-green. Easily separated. Their length is 3-12 mm.

Mokhovik tree: description and photo

pores

Arched, small. 1-3 pcs. by 1 mm. Golden or mustard (in mature mushrooms) color. Damaged ones turn dark blue.

Mokhovik tree: description and photo

Leg

Height 3-8 cm. Color up to reddish-brown. The circumference is the same throughout. May be curved. The thickness of the stem of the fungus is 0,6-2,5 cm. The mycelium is yellow on the base.

Mokhovik tree: description and photo

Споры

Elliptical, fusiform, smooth. Size 6-10×3-4 microns.

Where do mossiness trees grow

Grow from June to late autumn in North America (USA, Canada) and Europe. Wood flywheels are hard to find. This is one of the endangered species in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic. The mushroom is included in the Red Book of Bulgaria. The status, according to biologists, will soon change to endangered.

Mokhovik tree: description and photo

Stumps, root bases, sawdust – places where the tree flywheel can settle. It lives in small groups on dead conifers such as:

  • pine ordinary;
  • Weymouth pine;
  • European larch.

Sometimes appears on deciduous trees. For example, wild cherries.

Mokhovik tree: description and photo

Important! Often a sewing woman settles next to a tinder fungus, which leads a parasitic lifestyle, provokes the appearance of brown rot. For a long time, scientists could not figure out the reason for this neighborhood.

Microscopic analysis showed that the wood flyworm parasitizes the tinder fungus, although it was initially assumed that it simply creates favorable conditions for the growth of the golden fungus.

Mokhovik tree: description and photo

Is it possible to eat wood mushrooms

They are considered inedible, although they have a pleasant sweet, resinous smell and a sour taste. Due to their rarity, there is no way to study their culinary properties. 

Mokhovik tree: description and photo

Conclusion

Wood flywheel is not eaten. It belongs to the group of endangered mushrooms, is listed in the Red Book of some countries. Since it is not poisonous, it is not dangerous to humans, but it cannot bring any benefit or nutritional value either.

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