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The sea buckthorn tinder fungus was described recently, before that it was considered a variety of false oak tinder fungus. Refers to perennial, grows on sea buckthorn (on living old bushes).
Description of sea buckthorn tinder
Fruiting bodies sessile, hard, varied in shape. They can be hoof-shaped, rounded, half-protruded, semi-prostrate. Dimensions – 3-7×2-5×1,5-5 cm.
The surface of the cap of a young specimen is thin-felt, velvety, yellowish-brown. In the process of growth, it becomes bare, furrowed-zonal, with convex zones, the shade is from grayish-brown to dark gray, it is often covered with epiphytic algae or mosses.
The edge of the cap is rounded, blunt; in an adult mushroom, or when dried, it often cracks from the base. The fabric is from brownish to rusty-brown, woody, silky in the section.
The spore-bearing layer is brown, brown, rusty-brown. The pores are small and rounded. Spores are quite regular in shape, spherical or ovoid, thin-walled, pseudoamyloid, their size is 6-7,5×5,5-6,5 microns.
Often the mushroom envelops or half surrounds thin trunks and branches.
Where and how to grow
Settles in coastal or riverine thickets of sea buckthorn. It is found in Europe, in Western Siberia, Central and Central Asia.
Is the mushroom edible or not?
Refers to inedible species. It is not used for food.
Twins and their differences
Sea buckthorn tinder microscopically practically does not differ from false oak. In the first, the fruiting bodies are smaller, they differ in the correct shape (hoof-shaped or rounded), the pores are larger and thin-walled.
False oak tinder fungus is at first shapeless rusty-brownish growths, which in a mature specimen acquire a hoof-shaped or pillow-shaped shape and a gray-brown color. The surface is bumpy, with wide furrows and cracks. Size – from 5 to 20 cm. The pulp is woody and very hard.
They belong to cosmopolitan mushrooms, common in places where oaks grow. Causes white rot in trees.
Sometimes false tinder fungi settle on hornbeams, apple trees, chestnuts
Conclusion
Sea buckthorn tinder is a parasite that is quite aggressive to the trees on which it grows. It causes a fungal disease in the shrub – white rot. In Bulgaria it is included in the Red List.