Goblet saw-leaf (Neolentinus cyathiformis) photo and description

Traditional medicinal use

Universal recipe

Grind the dried shiitake into a powder.
Pour boiled water in a warm state (150 g) into 10 g of powder, let it brew for 15 minutes, stir.
Drink daily (with sediment) 3 times (half an hour before meals). Drinking water is allowed.

The treatment course is 4 months.

The healing effect of this recipe is great: immunity increases, cholesterol decreases, the development of cancerous tumors stops, liver diseases are cured, the body is cleared of chemical poisoning and the presence of harmful bacteria.

Hypertension, neurological diseases

Take a 5 gram bag of shiitake, infuse 150 g of brandy for 2 weeks. Take the medicine in the morning and in the evening at a dose of 5 g. In 2 weeks you will feel a noticeable improvement. However, it is advisable to continue treatment for up to 3 months. If necessary, it can be repeated several times after a month's rest. "Imperial mushroom" stabilizes blood pressure, soothes the nerves.

What is important to know about mushroom treatment

You should know that fungotherapy in comparison with herbal medicine works much harder and more efficiently. Currently, the use of medicinal mushrooms is increasing, so it is necessary to strictly follow the recommendations for their use.

The species of mushrooms should not be confused. So, in Russia there are 8 species of tinder fungus, and only one of them is well studied and has passed clinical trials - larch.
We must not forget about the accumulation of radionuclides and heavy metals by fungi. It is strictly forbidden to purchase medicinal mushrooms from hands, from ignorant people, in the markets. Mushroom preparations sent over the Internet must be tested in a laboratory, as they often simply do not withstand it.
Mushroom tinctures and infusions must be done correctly: mushrooms are "afraid" of high temperatures, high alcohol content. There is also a specificity when insisting on vodka.
Well, about deception. Under the guise of medicinal mushrooms, they sometimes send whatever they want. There are especially many fakes under shiitake now - completely different mushrooms in bags are given for them.

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How to cook a mushroom properly?

It is suitable for pickling and salting, it is also boiled and dried. Cooking is not difficult, the main thing is to collect only young specimens, and to use exactly the hats for cooking. In older mushrooms, the flesh becomes too tough and inedible.

Primary processing before cooking

Since the mushroom does not grow on the ground, but on wood, its surface is usually clean. The legs should be cut and discarded and washed.

Cooking

The spatula is boiled in salted water for 30 minutes. After such processing, it can be added to stews or other dishes, cook soup with it. Sawwood goes well with meat.

Pickling

A marinade is prepared for boiled mushrooms. For 1 liter of water you will need:

1 tbsp. l. salt;
1 tbsp. l. Sahara;
1 laurel leaf;
3 carnation buds;
2 tsp vinegar;
horseradish and currant leaves if desired;
3 cloves of garlic, minced.

All this is placed in a saucepan with water and put on the fire, after boiling mushrooms are poured into it, boiled for another 15 minutes. Then the sleepers are laid out on the banks, poured with marinade, closed with lids. Store them in the refrigerator on the bottom shelf.

Salting

Pre-boiled mushrooms are also used for her. After decanting from excess water, the saw-leaves are placed in a prepared container in layers, which are sprinkled with salt and favorite spices. It can be garlic, sweet peas, bay leaves, cloves and others.

Then everything is covered with gauze in several layers and pressed with a load.Mushrooms are salted for 40 days, while it is periodically necessary to rinse the fabric or lay a new one to avoid blooming. A week after the start of the process, the mushrooms should be completely covered with juice, if this has not happened, you need to increase the load or add salt water (1 liter - 2 tablespoons of salt).

At the end, the mushrooms should be laid out in jars, pour the remaining space with brine and put the product in a dark, cool place.

Drying

For her, the mushrooms also need to be boiled first, and then, laid out on a baking sheet, dried in the oven or airfryer. To make the process go faster, the caps should be cut into smaller pieces and periodically turned over. Drying will take at least 5 hours.

The spore mushroom is not common, so it is rarely harvested and eaten, but it is not considered poisonous. And in some countries it even refers to medicinal ones. It has no particular taste value, and is often referred to as the third or fourth group.

Whether or not to collect scaly saw leaves - everyone decides for himself, but if there are mushrooms in the forest that are tastier and healthier, then it is better to pay attention to them

Types of sawfoot mushroom

Tiger saw-leaf (Lentinus tigrinus)

The hat is 4-8 cm in diameter. Its surface is dry, dense, leathery. The color of the cap is white, whitish, with a yellow, creamy or nutty tint. On top of the cap there are concentric brown, almost black fibrous bristly scales, which are darker and densely located in its center. The shape of the cap in young mushrooms is convex, the edge is tucked down, later it becomes depressed in the center, or acquires a funnel-shaped shape, the edge is thin, uneven, and bursting. The leg is 3-8 cm high, about 1.5 cm wide, central. The structure of the leg is dense, rigid. The shape is cylindrical, narrows towards the base and stretches out in a tapered manner, even or curved. Sometimes a ring-shaped "belt" is located on the leg. At the plates, the leg is white, below the "girdle" it is dark, brownish, brownish. The surface of the peduncle is covered with small concentric, brown, sparse scales. The pulp is tough, thin, dense, leathery. The color of the flesh is white, sometimes it acquires a yellow tint with age. The smell and taste are not pronounced, but may depend on which tree stump the mushroom is growing on. Sometimes there is a "pungent" smell.

The mushroom is found throughout the northern hemisphere, in Europe and Asia, as well as in the Urals and the Far East. Usually inhabits forest belts, parks, along roadsides, as well as in places of mass felling of poplars. Sometimes it grows in cities.

The fruiting season for this species is summer-autumn, the mushroom appears en masse from late July to September. In the southern area, distribution is observed already in April. It grows in large intergrowths and groups on deadwood, stumps and trunks of deciduous trees (oak, poplar, willow, fruit trees).

Scaly saw-leaf (Lentinus lepideus)

Young mushrooms are classified as edible, as long as their pulp remains soft enough, mature mushrooms are not eaten.

The diameter of the mushroom cap is 3-12 cm. In young mushrooms, the cap is convex; as the fungus grows, it flattens and becomes funnel-shaped. The surface is dry, yellow, light brown or grayish white, covered with small brownish or brownish scales. Leg up to 6 cm in height, about 1-2.5 cm in thickness. Central, cylindrical, tapers downward, or becomes tapered elongated. The color of the leg is light, whitish, the surface is covered with scales of a red or reddish-brown color. The pulp is elastic, rigid structure with a pleasant mushroom aroma; in mature mature mushrooms, it is woody.

The fungus grows in the northern hemisphere, on the stumps of conifers, on fallen trees, sometimes it is found on telegraph poles and railway sleepers. Grows both singly and in small groups. The fruiting season lasts from early June to late September. Fruit bodies germinate slowly.

Poisonous and inedible species of sawfoot mushroom

Goblet saw-leaf (Lentinus cyathiformis)

Inedible mushroom due to the very high elasticity of the pulp.

The cap is funnel-shaped, up to 25 cm in diameter, reddish-beige in color, the surface is covered with irregular, weakly expressed concentric zones. In mature mushrooms, the cap fades to whitish, a dark spot remains in the center. The shape of the cap is hemispherical at first, gradually it opens and becomes funnel-shaped, the edge is uneven. The surface is dry, slightly fleecy. The pulp is white, elastic, has a pleasant smell that resembles the smell of fruit. The leg is short and thick, 3-8 cm high, 1-3 cm thick, tapers towards the base, the structure is rigid, the surface of the leg is almost completely covered with plates, blackish at the base.

The goblet saw-leaf grows on decaying deciduous trees (sometimes it also parasitizes living trees, causing white rot). It is a southern mushroom that is rarely found in the northern temperate latitudes. The fruit body grows for a long time.

Poisonous similar species of mushrooms for sawleafs are unknown. Due to their characteristic appearance, these mushrooms are not confused with poisonous species.

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Saw-leaf scaly (Sleeper mushroom): photo and description

Scaly sawfoot, or Sleeper mushroom, belongs to the conditionally edible species of the Polyporovye family. It grows in small families, on the stumps of coniferous trees. Since it has false counterparts, it is necessary to get acquainted with the external description, view photos and videos.

How does the scaly saw leaf look

During a quiet hunt, many mushroom pickers pass by this species, not knowing that it can be eaten and that it has good properties. To recognize the scaly leaf, you need to know the external characteristics.

Description of the hat

The cap of the scaly leaf is rounded-convex, gradually straightens with age, leaving a small depression in the very center. The surface is covered with off-white or gray-brown skin, which cracks in dry weather. A hat with a diameter of 10 cm or more has countless brown-brown scales. The bottom layer is formed by thin, dirty yellow plates. Reproduction takes place with very, very small spores, which are located in a whitish powder.

Leg description

The cylindrical leg can reach up to 6 cm in length. Closer to the ground, it narrows and becomes tapered-elongated. The surface is covered with a whitish skin with red or light brown scales. In young specimens, the flesh is soft, firm, with a pleasant mushroom taste and smell. With age, it becomes tough, so old mushrooms are not used for food.

Description

Hat

At the beginning, in young mushrooms, it has a flat or slightly convex shape with slightly curled edges. During this period, the hat is painted pink, its surface is smooth. Ripe and old mushrooms have a funnel-shaped cap, sometimes covered with sparse small scales or cracked. The edge of such a funnel is uneven, often of irregular shape.

The surface of the cap is dry, often covered with villi. The structure is dense, resilient, very resilient. Often, breaking the hat into two parts can only be done with considerable effort.

Spore-bearing layer

Lamellar. The plates are narrow, often located and strongly serrated, which gave the species name to the mushroom. Creeping down the leg, often almost to its base. At the beginning of growth, they are painted pinkish or cream in color, in older specimens they become bureau-brown. Spore powder is white.

Leg

Low, on average about 5 cm, in the largest specimens up to 8 cm. Quite thick, up to 3 cm in diameter. It has a regular cylindrical shape, in some specimens it tapers towards the base. Almost to the base it is hidden by a hymenophore, in the lower part, free from plates, it is dark gray, almost black. The structure is very dense and solid, solid.

Description of goblet sawfoot

The cap is funnel-shaped at first, then opens and becomes funnel-shaped. Its diameter reaches 25 centimeters.The color of the cap is reddish-white with weakly expressed irregular concentric zones. In old mushrooms, the caps fade and become colorless, while a dark spot remains in the middle. The surface is slightly fleecy, dry. The edges of the cap are usually uneven.

The pulp is very elastic. The color of the pulp is white. The smell is very pleasant, similar to the aroma of fruits. The plates are narrow, sawtooth-serrated, often located, strongly descending along the pedicle, reaching, almost to the base. In youth, the plates are white, then they become creamy, and even later they darken to a dirty brown color. Spore white powder.

The leg is thick - 1-3 centimeters wide, and short - no more than 3-8 centimeters high. Often it narrows towards the base. The leg is very rigid in structure. It is almost completely covered by the plates. The leg is blackish at the base.

Distribution of goblet sawnifers

These fungi settle on the decaying wood of deciduous trees. Probably, goblet saw-leaves can parasitize on living trees and cause them to develop white rot.

This is a predominantly southern species of mushrooms, and they are rare in the center of Russia. The fruiting bodies of the goblet sawnifers last for a long time. These mushrooms attract rodents, so animals often eat them, than they die from old age.

Edibility of goblet sawfoot

These are inedible mushrooms, as they have too elastic flesh. But they smell very tasty, so they can awaken the appetite.

Other saw-leaves

Tiger saw-leaf is a conditionally edible wood-destroying mushroom. His hat is asymmetrical, funnel-shaped, with a diameter of about 10 centimeters. The skin of the cap is dry, its shade is dirty gray interspersed with brown scales. The leg is white, at the base it becomes brown. The pulp is white; at the break, its color turns red.

Tiger saw-leaves are found from June to September. They grow on stumps and deadwood of deciduous trees. More often found in rather large groups. At a young age, these mushrooms are edible, but only their caps are harvested.

Scaly sawgel is a conditionally edible mushroom. His cap changes during maturation from convex to flat, and after funnel-shaped. Its surface is dry, light brown, yellow or gray-white. Its diameter is 3-12 centimeters. The stem is central, up to 6 centimeters high, white with reddish-brown scales. The pulp is tough, giving off a pleasant mushroom aroma.

Scaly saw-leaves grow on coniferous stumps. They grow in small groups or in single specimens. Fruiting occurs in June-September. The fruit bodies of these mushrooms germinate extremely slowly. Only young mushrooms are harvested, the pulp of which did not have time to harden.

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Hat. Diameter up to 7 cm, rounded-convex, later flat, smooth, shiny in dry weather, sticky in wet weather. The color is orange-brown, rusty-brown, red-brown, yellow-brown. The tubular layer is adherent or descending, reddish or rusty brown, the pores are large, angular. The pulp is soft, yellow, reddening when cut, odorless, with a peppery taste.

Leg. Height up to 7 cm, diameter up to 1.5 cm, cylindrical, often curved, dense, of the same color with the cap, yellow at the bottom.

Spore powder. Yellow-brown.

Habitat. Most often it grows in pine forests, less often in spruce, mixed and deciduous forests.

Season. Summer autumn.

Similarity. It looks a bit like a goat (Suillus bovinus) growing in the same places, but as soon as you lick the pepper mushroom under the cap, it immediately manifests itself.

Use. The mushroom is called inedible in many sources, but it can be used instead of pepper when pickling.

Medicinal properties. Pepper mushroom is used in small amounts as a condiment to stimulate digestion. Goat is one of the leaders among cap mushrooms in terms of antibiotic content.

Appearance and application

The spores of these fungi are located in pseudo-plates. They are often located, have a creamy shade. They are narrow in shape and serrated.

The cap of the saw-leaf in a young fruiting body is somewhat convex, but it can also be straight. The edges are tucked up and have a pinkish tint. Over time, the cap becomes funnel-shaped; it can be covered with red scales. Sometimes there are just cracks on its surface.

The leg of these mushrooms is dense. Usually it matches the shade of the cap or is lighter in color. In an adult mushroom, it is somewhat narrowed towards the bottom; red scales are visible on the surface. Young fruit bodies have soft but firm flesh. In an adult mushroom, it is tougher. Has a white tint. The pulp does not have any taste, but the smell is somewhat harsh.

This species is considered unfit for consumption. But this does not stop some mushroom pickers, and they still collect it, subsequently adding it to various dishes. But in any case, only hats are eaten, which are boiled before that. Whether to follow an example from these people - everyone can decide for himself. But in nature there are many other mushrooms that are much tastier and healthier than goblet sawfoot.

Types of sawfoot mushroom

Tiger saw-leaf (Lentinus tigrinus)

Conditionally edible mushroom.

Scaly saw-leaf (Lentinus lepideus)

Young mushrooms are classified as edible, as long as their pulp remains soft enough, mature mushrooms are not eaten.

Poisonous and inedible species of sawfoot mushroom

Goblet saw-leaf (Lentinus cyathiformis)

Inedible mushroom due to the very high elasticity of the pulp.

Poisonous similar species of mushrooms for sawleafs are unknown. Due to their characteristic appearance, these mushrooms are not confused with poisonous species.

Mushroom therapy, reality or advertising?

About 20 years ago, Japanese biologist Goro Chihara said he knew a remedy that could stop cancer. These are shiitake mushrooms growing on trees. The biologist argued that these mushrooms work on a new principle. They do not destroy tumor cells, but cause the body to produce perforin (an enzyme that it produces specifically to fight off the cancer cells that form every day). Thus, it is possible to destroy tumors without introducing any poisons into the body.

Goro-san confirmed this clinically: the use of the Shiitake drug caused a complete regression of the sarcoma.

Mushrooms from Japan have created a huge "authority" on the American continent. The famous singer Michael Jackson drank Shiitak tea every morning, praising its extraordinary health properties and attributing it to the means of immortality.

American singer Madonna Louise Ciccone advertises these mushrooms with the freshness and firmness of her skin. The above is rather half true and half show.

However, in the West they began to actively develop fungotherapy, investing large costs in the study of woody mushrooms from Japan (shiitake, meitake, reishi).

Related species

Goblet sawfoot - this mushroom is not used for cooking, as it belongs to the inedible species. The cap has a characteristic funnel shape, reddish-white color. The caps of adult mushrooms are usually white due to discoloration. The surface of the peel of the fruiting body is dry, covered with fine hair, the edges are uneven. The pulp is quite firm, with a pleasant aroma of fresh fruit. The stem of the mushroom is small in size, but at the same time rather thick, almost completely covered with plates. Most often, this species grows on damaged deciduous wood.
Tiger saw-leaf is a conditionally edible mushroom. The mushroom cap has an asymmetrical shape, funnel-shaped. The surface is dry, densely covered with small brown scales. The leg is white, darkening closer to the base. The pulp is white; when the fruit body is broken, it almost immediately changes color and turns red. The fruiting season is from early summer to mid-autumn. Most often, this type of mushroom is found in coniferous forests among the accumulation of dead wood.

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Goblet sawfoot (Goblet lentinus, Neolentinus cyathiformis): what it looks like, where and how it grows, edible or not

Goblet saw-leaf (Neolentinus cyathiformis (Schaeff.) Della Maggiora & Trassinelli, 2014)

Insert-mushroom-tree Synonyms: Neolentinus schaefferi (Weinmann) Redhead & Ginns 1985 Lentinus schaefferi (Weinmann) Rauschert 1988Agaricus cyathiformis Schaeffer 1774Panus cyathiformis (Schaeffer) Fries 1838Agaricus schaefferichaechaeuntariaPanus 1838Agaricus schaefferichaechaeuntaria Malysheva, Malysheva & Zmitrovich 2004 Polyporus cyathiformis (Schaeffer) Zmitrovich 2010

Etymology: Lentinus (Latin lentus - curved) cyathiformis (Latin cyathiformis - goblet).

Hat: 8-15 cm in diameter, initially convex, then concave or funnel-shaped, dry, with small rusty-brownish scales, buffy-cream or reddish-brown, lighter along the edge.

Plates: descending, narrow, then wide, with a serrated edge, white, off-white to maturity.

Leg: 5-10 x 1-1.5 cm, cylindrical, solid, often eccentric, of the same color and texture with a hat.

Flesh: white, dense, corky-woody at maturity, without any special smell or taste.

Spores: 10-15 x 4-5 microns, elongated ellipsoidal, smooth, colorless.

Spore powder: white.

Habitat: grows on rotten stumps and deadwood in deciduous forests.

Season: May to October.

Edible: The mushroom is edible, but becomes too tough with age.

Distribution in Kazakhstan: rare mushroom. Met in one of the courtyards of Almaty.

Habitat: Kazakhstan, Russia, West. Europe, East. Asia.

Goblet sawfoot in the photos:

List of used literature: Serzhanin G.I. "Hat mushrooms of Belarus: Keys and synopsis of flora.", "Science and technology" Minsk, 1984.

Where grows

These mushrooms prefer southern latitudes, as they are thermophilic. In temperate climates and in northern latitudes, it can be found very rarely. Mushrooms grow in groups in mixed forests. They can only be seen on decaying hardwood.

These mushrooms are collected in places where there are remnants of rotting trees that have fallen to the ground. They grow in the southern part of Europe, closer to the west. In Russia, they grow in the south and in the center. They are also present on the territory of Crimea, Siberia, and the Urals. Also found in the Far East, the Caucasus. The fruiting period begins in July and lasts until the onset of cold weather.