Sulfur-yellow hypocrea (Trichoderma sulphureum)
Systematics:
- Department: Ascomycota (Ascomycetes)
- Subdivision: Pezizomycotina (Pesizomycotins)
- Class: Sordariomycetes (Sordariomycetes)
- Subclass: Hypocreomycetidae
- Order: Hypocreales
- Family: Hypocreaceae
- Genus: Trichoderma (Trichoderma)
- Species: Trichoderma sulphureum (Sulfur-yellow hypocrea)
Synonyms:
Hypocrea sulphurea
Fruiting body of sulfur-yellow hypocrea: At first it appears in the form of dull fragments on the fruiting body of the glandular exidia, Exidia glandulosa; over time, the fragments grow, harden, acquiring a characteristic sulfur-yellow color, and merge into a single conglomerate. Sizes can vary significantly depending on growing conditions; in the final stage of development, the size of sulfur-yellow hypocrea can be up to ten or more centimeters. The surface is bumpy, wavy, abundantly covered with dark dots – the mouths of perithecia. That is, in other words, directly to the fruiting bodies of the fungus, in which, accordingly, spores are formed.
The pulp of the body is sulfur-yellow hypocrea: Dense, spongy, yellow or yellowish in color.
Soap powder: White.
Distribution: Sulfur-yellow hypocrea Trichoderma sulphureum occurs somewhere from mid or late June to mid or late September (that is, throughout the warm and more or less wet season), spurring glandular exsidia in places of its traditional growth – on raw remains deciduous trees. It can grow without visible signs of the host fungus.
Similar species: The genus Hypocrea contains several more or less similar species, among which Hypocrea citrina stands out in a special way – the mushroom is rather yellowish, and it does not grow quite in those places. The rest are even less similar.
Edible: The mushroom itself eats mushrooms, there is no place for a person here.
Remarks Sulphurous yellow hypocrea is a kind of 'mushroom police' or, to put it bluntly, the organ of the mushroom's own safety. Therefore, hypocrea cannot be called especially attractive, but also for this reason it probably does not matter to her. The task of hypocreia is to teach the unbelted tremors to reason, and for such a task, they do not take on a white glove.
