Xylaria umi vae (Xylaria longipes) ata ma faʻamatalaga

Xylaria vae uumi (Xylaria longipes)

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• Xylaria long-legged
• Xylaria long-legged

Xylaria long-legged in English-speaking countries is called “dead moll’s fingers” – “Fingers of a dead street girl”, “Fingers of a dead prostitute”. An eerie name, but it is the essence of the difference between Xylaria long-legged and Xylaria multiforme, which is called “dead man’s fingers” – “dead man’s fingers”: the long-legged is thinner than the diverse, and it often has a thin leg.

The second popular name of Xylaria long-legged, French, is pénis de bois mort, “dead wooden penis.”

Fruiting body: 2-8 centimeters in height and up to 2 cm in diameter, club-shaped, with a rounded end. Gray to brown when young, becoming completely black with age. The surface of the fruiting body becomes scaly and cracks as the fungus matures.

The stem is of proportional length, but may be short or absent altogether.

Spores 13-15 x 5-7 µm, smooth, fusiform, with spiral germinal fissures.

Saprophyte on rotting deciduous logs, fallen trees, stumps and branches, especially fond of beech and maple fragments. They grow singly and in groups, in forests, sometimes on the edges. Cause soft rot.

Spring-autumn. Grows in Europe, Asia, North America.

E le mafai ona 'aina le mushroom. E leai se fa'amatalaga e uiga i mea oona.

Scientists have discovered the amazing ability of this and another type of fungus (physisporinus vitreus) to positively influence the quality of wood. In particular, Professor Francis Schwartz of the Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Science and Technology Empa has invented a wood treatment method that changes the acoustic properties of a natural material.

The discovery is based on the use of special mushrooms and is able to bring modern violins closer to the sound of the famous creations of Antonio Stradivari (Science Daily writes about this).

Ata: Wikipedia