Gigrofor white - description and photo of the mushroom
Family: Hygrophoraceae.
Description. The cap is 2-10 cm in diameter, of medium thickness, convex, often with a wide tubercle, less often blunt-conical, smooth, slimy, with a sinuous drooping edge, at first white, later ivory, slightly yellowish when dry. When wet, the hat is covered with a thick layer of mucus so that it is difficult to collect the mushroom. When you rub the mushroom between your fingers, it feels like wax. The pulp is white, dense, with a pleasant taste, with a specific smell (reminiscent of the smell of the caterpillars of an odorous woodworm). The plates are descending, dense, thick, sparse, white, sometimes with a faint creamy shade. Leg 4-12 X 0.5-1.5 cm, central, cylindrical, made, later often hollow, white, slightly mealy or granular in the upper part, mucous in the lower part, with white punctate scales.
Gigrofor white grows on soil in mixed and deciduous forests (under oaks, beeches, elms), bears fruit from August to November. In the southern forest zone - often, in places abundant.
Next, you can see the white hygrophoric mushroom in the photo, which show its various stages of development:
Similar species. The yellowish disc hygrophor (H. discoxanthus) is related to mushrooms similar in appearance. Well distinguishable by rusty-brown spots that appear when touched. Several other white-colored hygrophors grow only in spruce or birch forests or have a pronounced slimy ring on the stem.
Pharmacological and medical properties. Fruit bodies contain a large amount of trace elements (magnesium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, tin, cadmium).
A number of biologically active substances, including fatty acids with bactericidal and antifungal activity, have been isolated from the fruiting body of a yellowish-white hygrophor. Fatty acids are formed on the basis of the substance y-oxocrotonate. One of these acids - (E) - 4-oxohexadeca-2-enoic acid - showed fungicidal activity against the pathogen of potatoes and tomatoes Phytophthora infestans.
Other secondary metabolites have been isolated, for example a ceramide component called hydrofamide, as well as P-carbonyl alkaloids known as harman and norharman, which are characteristic of higher plants. This discovery, made in 2008, showed for the first time the presence of such substances in the fruiting bodies of mushrooms.
Cooking use. It is eaten fresh, pickled and salted. In China, a drink is made with it from yak milk, fermented with a mixture of Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus acidophilus.
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