Nicknames: Summer Solstice Mushroom, Chicken (Tucong) Mushroom, Chicken Mushroom, Ant Snail, Ant (Tucong), Chicken (Tucong) Vegetable, Chicken Foot Mushroom, Three Altars
Mushroom, Chicken Shredded Mushroom, Fighting Chicken Mushroom, Termite Mushroom, Kirin Mushroom, Chicken Shredded Mushroom, Chicken Foot Mushroom, Umbrella Mushroom
Harvesting and processing: It can only grow after rain and clear weather. After harvesting in summer and autumn, remove sediment and dry in the sun for later use.
Medicinal parts: fruiting body
Origin: Jiangsu, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, etc
Family: White Mushroom Family
Original plant: Chicken Fir fungus
Plant situation: Fungi grow on mountain slopes, fields, and forest edges, with their false roots connected to underground termite nests.
The cap width is 3-23.5cm. When young, conical to bell shaped, gradually extending, with a prominent protrusion at the top resembling a conical hat, light earthy yellow or grayish brown
Color to black brown, radiating cracks as it ages, and sometimes the edges flip up. Fungal folds are white to milky white, yellowish in age, curved or near
Detached, dense, narrow, unequal in length, with wavy edges.
The mushroom meat is white and thick. The stem is thick and robust, measuring 3-15cm in length and 0.7-2.4cm in thickness. It is white or of the same cap color, medium solid, and has an enlarged base,
Having slender pseudoroots ranging from brown to dark brown, with a length of up to 40cm, spore imprints are creamy or pinkish in color. Spore elliptical, smooth,
Colorless, (7.5-8.5) μ m × (4.5-5.5) μ m.
Chicken fir fungus coexists with termite camps. Chicken under natural conditions? Fungi and termites live in symbiosis, and the termites that coexist with them are giant termites
Some species of subfamily, the more common soil dwelling termites include Odontotermes formosanus and Yunnan white termites
Ants (O. yunnanensis), yellow winged termites (Macroterms barneyi), etc.
(1) Are termites building nests for chickens? Bacterial transmission strains.
(2) Termites obtain various nutrients and disease resistant substances from the small white balls of the chicken fungus.
(3) Chicken fir fungus obtains nutrients from termite nest and surrounding environment.
The growth of chicken fir fungus has its own characteristics. If it grows in this place for one year without disturbance, it will continue to grow in place the next year. This is called "chicken"
When I leave the nest, I feel unhappy as agreed. There must be a structure similar to a termite nest under the "nest" where this chicken stands tall
The soil block. If the insects move, there won't be any chickens here the next year.
Picking chicken fir is also a matter of careful consideration. Firstly, do not tell others about the chicken fir nest, and secondly, seize the opportunity. When the umbrella cover is not yet opened, the chicken tree
The freshest, tender, and most delicious. If you wait for it to be unearthed and cover it with an umbrella, it will immediately become "disheveled" and the meat will age. I've picked chicken fir, I need to apply some moisture to the roots
Mud can nourish it for one or two days, and after that, the bacteria will dry up like firewood. "
Characteristics of Chicken Fir Mushroom Medicinal Materials: The cap is conical or elongated, with a central bulge in the shape of a conical hat, and a diameter of up to 23.5cm. It is dark brown and gray in color
Brown or light earthy yellow, with radiating cracks on the surface and occasional flipping of the edges. Thick mushroom flesh, almost white in color. The gills are dense and unequal in length,
White or yellowish in color. The stem is 3-15cm long, 1-2.5cm in diameter, white or grayish white, slightly swollen at the base and extending into a brown pseudohyphae
Roots can grow up to 40cm in length. Strong aroma and light taste.
Simple identification
1. The mushroom umbrella resembles a bamboo hat: the top of the mushroom umbrella has a significant protrusion, making the entire mushroom umbrella in the shape of a bamboo hat. The protrusion in the middle is called
For the tip of the umbrella.
2. The tip of the umbrella is as hard as iron or steel: When pressed with fingers, the hardness of the tip is as strong as an iron stick, which is not found in other mushrooms. chicken
The size of the mushroom umbrella varies greatly depending on the type of shiitake mushroom, with larger ones having a diameter of over 20cm and smaller ones less than 3cm
Their umbrella tips are extremely hard, which is their common feature.
3. White gills: The surface of the chicken mushroom mushroom umbrella is gray, white, beige, and other colors, and its gills are initially white
Gradually mature and turn milky white or slightly yellowish.
4. A mycorrhizal fungus that does not branch and runs directly to the underground termite nest is commonly referred to as a false root in academia. All of them
Are the above four characteristics sufficient to identify a chicken? The fungus has grown.
Medicinal properties of chicken fir fungus:
【 Taste 】 Sweet; Sexual Peace
[Gui Jing] Spleen; Stomach; Large intestine meridian.
【 Indications 】 Strengthening the spleen and stomach; Treat hemorrhoids. Main abdominal distension, indigestion, mental fatigue, hemorrhoids.
[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: decoct soup, 6-9g.
【 Discussions from Various Schools 】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": Beneficial to the stomach, clears the mind, and treats hemorrhoids. "
From the Compendium of Materia Medica.
1. "Guangjunpu": Chicken and pine mushrooms, originating from Yunnan, grow in sandy areas and are commonly used as mushrooms. A high footed umbrella head, picked and baked by the locals, sent far away to fill the square object.
The scent is like a fragrant mushroom, rather than its charm.
2. "Guangqunfangpu": Chicken fir fungus, according to "Tongya" as chicken fir. The "Yunnan Annals" refers to the "chicken and fir". The chicken is shaped by words, while the "fir" is characterized by white flowers
The appearance of the feet is said to be Yang Shen. Or it can be called ant fir, with ant nests all under its habitat. The Guizhou Annals states that there are ants below that resemble bees, also known as ants
Take it away. "