Schwermetalle in Höheren Pilzen, III * Vanadium und Molybdän / Heavy Metals in Higher Fungi, II I. Vanadium and Molybdenum

Abstract

Abstract In several series of 212 samples, higher fungi, especially from the genus Amanita and related genera, were analyzed by atomic absorption spectroscopy on their content of the trace metals vanadium and molybdenum. Only vanadium was found to be present in high concentration in the fly agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria), while 22 of its related species showed the normal V-content of the higher fungi tested. A correlation with the presence of molybdenum could not be detected. A special enrichment of Mo was not found in higher fungi. The analysis of several fruit bodies from A. muscaria showed that the highest V-content was present in the bulb and in the lamellae, both contents increasing with age, while the spores contained only 1 - 2% of the lamellar vanadium.