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Phellinus punctatus - Polsterförmiger Feuerschwamm

No. 76 - a finding from the Bavarian Alps. only regionally common species
fire sponges are perennial, hard, brown Porling with layered tubes. They grow pileate, effuse-reflex or resupinat. Trama their turns with Potash black promptly. Almost all species have Tramal, brown, thick-walled and tapered cells (setae).
The spores are pale to brownish and usually in the form of circular to elliptical. Ca. 25 different Phellinusarten come in Germany at various deciduous and coniferous trees.
P. punctatus resupinat growing with more or less firmly attached edges. The fruiting bodies are in the middle of plump, pillow-shaped, oblong-narrow, slender and are about 20 - 50 cm long. If you cut them in half, you can see several growth layers. This in the Rhine-Main region rather rare species in addition to their remarkable growth has another special on. If it lacks the thick, pointed "Setea" which are so typical in the genus, throughout. Found only in the hymenium thin, short, zystidenartige cells.
The cushion-shaped sponge fire grows primarily on trunks of dead or dying willows and hazel bushes, rarely in other hardwoods. It is found along forest edges and river flows in swamp forests, but always on thin places in 1 - 2 meters above the ground. The pores are tiny, measuring about 5 - 6 per mm. The species has small, rounded and rather colorless spores.

With practice, it is easy to recognize. Similar, mainly resupinate Phellinus species with which one could confuse them, are much thinner, and grow to more lying on the ground, rotten branches or on the side or bottom horizontal strains. The cushion-shaped sponge
fire can be found on the other hand, always available to tribes by far the ground. In southern Germany, is the type often used and in appropriate habitats.
The presented images were photographed in April 2010 in a willow thicket on the river Isar in Wallgau / Karwendel.