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

Fungotherapy - treatment with mushrooms

It is known from history that one of the last Chinese emperors, Pui, had one wife and 40 concubines. His chef prepared the ruler every day various meat dishes with tree ears, which the Chinese called "shiitake" (in Japan - "shiitake"). This dish preserved manhood for the head of a large family.

The medicine of Japan and China has known the healing properties of Shiitake for more than 2 millennia. Wu Gorin, a famous healer, wrote about them as early as 1309 in his work. The healer concluded that they raise the spirit of life energy "qi", curing colds, relieving hunger and getting into the blood. Consequently, mushrooms increase "vital energy", "pouring" the "fullness of life" into a person.

Wu Gorin developed mushroom tea and rice vodka tincture to treat lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, and other diseases.

The benefits of mushrooms have been known for a long time. In Russia, healers effectively used porcini mushrooms, chanterelles, stitches, fly agarics to treat many diseases.

So in folk medicine a new direction of treatment was born - fungotherapy.

What does it actually represent - an effective medical direction or pseudoscience?

mushroom treatment

Taxonomy

Synonyms

• Agaricus cyprinus Batsch, 1783
• Agaricus flammeus J. F. Gmel., 1792, nom. superfl.
• Agaricus lepideus Fr., 1815: Fr., 1821basionym
• Agaricus polymorphus Pers., 1828, nom. superfl.
• Agaricus polymorphus var. ceratoides (Holmsk.) Pers., 1828
• Agaricus polymorphus var. proboscideus Pers., 1828
• Agaricus polymorphus var. tubaeformis (Schaeff.) Pers., 1828
• Agaricus squamosus Schaeff., 1774, nom. illeg.
• Agaricus suffrutescens Brot., 1805
• Agaricus tubaeformis Schaeff., 1774
• Amanita crispa Lam., 1783, nom. superfl.
• Clitocybe lepidea (Fr.) P. Kumm., 1871
• Lentinus contiguus Fr., 1874
• Lentinus cryptarum Fuckel, 1870
• Lentinus domesticus P. Karst., 1887
• Lentinus gallicus Quél., 1885
• Lentinus lepideus (Fr.) Fr., 1825
• Lentinus lepideus f. rufescens A.N. Petrov, 1987
• Lentinus lepideus var. contiguus (Fr.) Rea, 1922
• Lentinus lepideus var. hibernicus McArdle, 1909
• Lentinus magnus Peck, 1896
• Lentinus maximus A.E. Johnson, 1878
• Lentinus monnardianus Durieu & Mont., 1845
• Lentinus platensis Speg., 1898
• Lentinus queletii Schulzer, 1885
• Lentinus sitaneus Fr., 1836
• Lentinus spretus Peck, 1906
• Lentinus squamosus (Schaeff.) Quél., 1888
• Lentodium squamosum (Schaeff.) Murrill, 1911
• Neolentinus suffrutescens (Brot.) T. W. May & A. E. Wood, 1995
• Panus lepideus (Fr.) Corner, 1981
• Pocillaria lepidea (Fr.) Kuntze, 1891
• Ramaria ceratoides Holmsk., 1799

Scaly saw-leaf (Neolentinus lepideus)

Hat: at first, the cap of the mushroom has a convex shape, in the process of maturation it flattens and takes on a funnel-shaped shape. The surface of the cap is dry, yellow, light brown or grayish-white with medium-sized brown or brown scales. The cap reaches 3-12 cm in diameter.

Leg: 6 cm high. 1-2.5 cm wide. The central leg is eccentrically located, cylindrical in shape. To the bottom, the leg narrows slightly, it can be tapered elongated, whitish in color with scales of a red or reddish-brown color.

Flesh: firm, tough with a pleasant mushroom smell; in an adult mushroom, the flesh becomes woody.

Plates: descending along the stem, grayish-white or yellowish in color. Serrated along the edges. The presence of conspicuous teeth is considered the main distinguishing feature of the sawfoot.

Spore powder: white.

Edible: the mushroom can be eaten, but only at a young age, while the pulp is still soft enough, ripe mushrooms are not suitable for eating. There is no information about the toxicity of the fungus.

Similarity: May be confused with other similar large flakes and saw-leaves, which are characterized by low nutritional quality and are inedible.

Distribution: occurs on coniferous tree stumps and dead woods, as well as on telegraph poles and railroad sleepers. Grows singly or in small groups. Fruiting from early June to September. Fruit bodies germinate very slowly, adorning the pillars and trunks with their presence for a long time.

Video about the mushroom Saw-leaf scaly:

Notes: Scaly sawfoot is one of the most serious destroyers, as it can exist on specially treated wood of posts and sleepers, destroying it.

Mushroom photo Saw-leaf scaly (Sleepy mushroom) from questions in recognition:

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Specifications:

Systematics:

Description of the species

Young specimens of the species have a rather convex cap, which gradually melts with the growth of the fungus, forming a funnel-shaped depression in the inner part. The edges of the cap are rather thin. The diameter of this part of the mushroom does not exceed 100 mm. The color ranges from off-white to light brown with some yellowness. On a dry surface, you can clearly see small scales of a brown or brownish color. Closer to the central part, larger scales are located.

The lamellar body of the scaly saw leaf is distinguished by plates with rather large notches, their color varies from dirty yellow to brown. The pulp of this type is white in young specimens, dense and elastic, hardens with maturation. The pulp of the fruiting body has a pleasant mushroom aroma.

Leg of regular shape, one-piece, tapering towards the base. The color of this part of the sleeper mushroom is off-white, the surface is covered with small reddish scales.

morel cap - description, where it grows, the poisonousness of the mushroom

Sleeper mushroom - description, where it grows, the toxicity of the mushroom

A sleepy mushroom is an edible mushroom belonging to the polyporous family. Despite its edibility, this species is little known, so many mushroom pickers, seeing it, simply bypass it. Another name for representatives of this species is scaly saw-leaf.

Description of the species

Young specimens of the species have a rather convex cap, which gradually melts with the growth of the fungus, forming a funnel-shaped depression in the inner part. The edges of the cap are rather thin. The diameter of this part of the mushroom does not exceed 100 mm. The color ranges from off-white to light brown with some yellowness. On a dry surface, you can clearly see small scales of a brown or brownish color. Closer to the central part, larger scales are located.

The lamellar body of the scaly saw leaf is distinguished by plates with rather large notches, their color varies from dirty yellow to brown. The pulp of this type is white in young specimens, dense and elastic, hardens with maturation. The pulp of the fruiting body has a pleasant mushroom aroma.

Leg of regular shape, one-piece, tapering towards the base. The color of this part of the sleeper mushroom is off-white, the surface is covered with small reddish scales.

Growing places

Most often, this type of mushroom can be found growing on fallen and dead trees, in fact, representatives of this species feed on decaying wood. In addition to deadwood, stumps and fallen trees, groups of fungi can grow on various wood products, sleepers and telegraph poles, thereby destroying their structure. Note that in order to preserve the operational life of such products, the latter are covered with a special antiseptic. Nevertheless, this does not harm the sawfoot at all, which, on the contrary, likes such "impregnation", in fact, which is why this species got its name - the sleeper mushroom.

Where is the best place to collect?

Although the type of mushroom presented to our attention is classified as edible, nevertheless, there are hardly many people who want to try culinary delights with mushrooms growing on wood impregnated with creosote.

We draw your attention to the fact that mushrooms growing on sleepers can be harmful to health, since they accumulate in themselves a sufficiently large amount of harmful substances that negatively affect the human body.

Therefore, if you decide to harvest saw-leaf, in this case, these mushrooms should be collected in the forest. For collection, it is better to choose young specimens, the preparation of which involves pickling and salting.

Poisonous doubles

The sleeper mushroom has a characteristic appearance, so it is rather difficult to confuse it with other species; currently, there is no information about the dangerous and poisonous doubles of this mushroom for humans.

Beneficial features

Due to their nutritional value, mushrooms such as scaly-leafed leaves are widely used in oriental dishes. In addition to its nutritional value, the mushroom is also very useful, in dried form, it has a good antitumor effect in the treatment of cancer. Also, the use of sawfoot contributes to the formation of useful substances, including interferon, which effectively fights against many ailments of an infectious nature.

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.

Scientific studies

Scientists did not stop at the discovery of the antitumor properties of shiitake mushrooms. They found in them "volatile compounds" - incredible "virus-like particles". Those freely penetrate into various viruses and destroy them. The particles were called "mushroom phytoncides". It turned out that they help the body to produce interferon - a strong component of the immune system. He interferes with the multiplication of the virus. The amount of interferon produced is sufficient to protect against influenza.

Moreover, "mushroom phytoncides" can resist almost all viruses (hepatitis, herpes, even HIV). Studies carried out at the Institute of Immunology in Tokyo confirm that the shiitake medicine is active in the fight against AIDS - much more effective than those obtained earlier.

The named mushrooms were included in the study at the USSR Ministry of Health. The conclusions obtained at the cardiological center were quite significant: 5 hours after a single intake of the mushroom infusion, the toxic blood serum "lost the ability to accumulate cholesterol." In addition, a persistent decrease in pressure was observed after two weeks of treatment. Reishi mushroom also has such an effect on the body.

Unfortunately, then research experiments were canceled, despite the growing authority of fungotherapy.

And only recently, medicine again drew attention to the "mushroom potential". In d

St. Petersburg Pharmaceutical Academy has developed a method for using shiitake, made a Russian bioadditive with the same name. However, it did not receive development, remaining difficult to access even in St. Petersburg.

Fresh shiitake is sold in Moscow and other large cities. True, they are not suitable for treatment, because drugs are prepared from the type of "koshin shiitake". And this is the Donko Shiitake variety.

Today there are already many methods for the use of medicinal mushrooms (growing in Russia) against various diseases.Autoimmune diseases are cured - every second case shows improvement, the disease almost always stops.

In oncology, antitumor fungi also work wonders: a persistent improvement is observed, the disease does not progress, metastasis stops. Well, with a stopped oncology, you can live a long time, however, constantly taking mushrooms. There are many cases of complete healing, even in the later stages. Fungotherapy is progressing.

Tree ears (saw-leaf)

tree ears medicinal mushrooms For a long time, Europeans believed that Shiitake lives only in the countries of warm Asia. And only when the tree ears were shown to the mycologists, they realized that this organism belongs to fungi, only not similar to cap mushrooms. It turned out that they belong to the order agaric (lamellar). Moreover, Europeans were already familiar with this mushroom under the name lentinus or saw-leaf.

It usually grows in deciduous forests (on stumps, on dead wood), sometimes it is found in large groups. An excellent substrate for this fungus is wood waste, chicken droppings, and waste from subsidiary farms. The fungus adapts very well to life in unpretentious environmental conditions.

When dry, it is not particularly elegant. With complete indifference to the place of growth, the mushroom has excellent taste. It can be eaten raw (it tastes like a radish).

Currently, biologists and physicians are studying the saw-leaf in several directions: the technology of growing crops is being worked out, the biochemical composition is being investigated, and the healing properties are being checked.

It is also found in our country (one of the representatives is a sleeper mushroom), however, Russians are not very accustomed to these mushrooms and do not use them in food and fungotherapy, therefore, chanterelles, which are familiar to Russians, can serve as a somewhat weak replacement for ears.

Taxonomy [| ]

Synonyms

• Agaricus cyprinus Batsch, 1783
• Agaricus flammeus J. F. Gmel., 1792, nom. superfl.
• Agaricus lepideus Fr., 1815: Fr., 1821basionym
• Agaricus polymorphus Pers., 1828, nom. superfl.
• Agaricus polymorphus var. ceratoides (Holmsk.) Pers., 1828
• Agaricus polymorphus var. proboscideus Pers., 1828
• Agaricus polymorphus var. tubaeformis (Schaeff.) Pers., 1828
• Agaricus squamosus Schaeff., 1774, nom. illeg.
• Agaricus suffrutescens Brot., 1805
• Agaricus tubaeformis Schaeff., 1774
• Amanita crispa Lam., 1783, nom. superfl.
• Clitocybe lepidea (Fr.) P. Kumm., 1871
• Lentinus contiguus Fr., 1874
• Lentinus cryptarum Fuckel, 1870
• Lentinus domesticus P. Karst., 1887
• Lentinus gallicus Quél., 1885
• Lentinus lepideus (Fr.) Fr., 1825
• Lentinus lepideus f. rufescens, 1987
• Lentinus lepideus var. contiguus (Fr.) Rea, 1922
• Lentinus lepideus var. hibernicus, 1909
• Lentinus magnus Peck, 1896
• Lentinus maximus, 1878
• Lentinus monnardianus Durieu & Mont., 1845
• Lentinus platensis Speg., 1898
• Lentinus queletii Schulzer, 1885
• Lentinus sitaneus Fr., 1836
• Lentinus spretus Peck, 1906
• Lentinus squamosus (Schaeff.) Quél., 1888
• Lentodium squamosum (Schaeff.) Murrill, 1911
• Neolentinus suffrutescens (Brot.) &, 1995
• Panus lepideus (Fr.) Corner, 1981
• Pocillaria lepidea (Fr.) Kuntze, 1891
• Ramaria ceratoides Holmsk., 1799

What does the scaly sawleaf look like?

During a quiet hunt, many mushroom pickers pass by this species, not knowing that it can be eaten and that it has beneficial 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 center. The surface is covered with off-white or gray-brown skin, which cracks in dry weather. A cap with a diameter of 10 cm and more has numerous brown-brown scales. The bottom layer is formed by thin, dirty yellow plates. Reproduction occurs by microscopic spores, which are located in a whitish powder.

Leg description

The cylindrical leg reaches a length of 6 cm. 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.

Saw-leaf, Lentinus lepideus

Hat: With a diameter of 3-12 cm, fleshy, hemispherical or convex in young mushrooms, with age it gradually opens and becomes thinner, acquiring a complex "convex-depressed" shape, often with uneven edges. The color of the cap is from off-white to equally dirty brown, the surface is dry, covered with velvety large scales, only slightly darker than the cap. The flesh of the cap is light, thick, very elastic, in old specimens it is dry, with a pleasant mushroom smell.

Hymenophore: The plates are deeply descending, relatively sparse, of medium width, cap color or somewhat lighter.A characteristic feature is the presence of noticeable "teeth" on the plates, which gave the name to the whole genus Sawfoot.

Spore powder: White.

Leg: Central or eccentric, often curved and thinned at the base, length and thickness vary greatly depending on the growing conditions (thickness 1-3 cm, length 2-10 cm). The flesh of the leg is fibrous, very firm and dry.

Spreading: It occurs from mid-July to mid-September on the remains of coniferous trees, not least on processed wood (sleepers, pillars, etc. - it is no coincidence that the scaly leaf was called the "sleeper mushroom"), as a rule, rarely and not abundantly - one by one specimen, less often in small groups. Fruit bodies develop slowly, decorating trunks and pillars with their presence for a long time. Destroying the processed wood of sleepers and poles, the mushroom is said to be of great national economic importance.

Similar species: Given the nature of its growth, it is very difficult to confuse Lentinus lepideus with any species other than closely related ones. (Although the author, for example, managed to confuse it with destructive flake, but this is simply from an excess of imagination and practical laziness.) The tiger saw-leaf (Lentinus tigrinus) is smaller, differs in a funnel-shaped cap and usually grows in aggregates.

Edibility: At a young age, they write, the mushroom is quite edible. A pleasant smell, of course, in a sense, is conducive to experiments, but first you need to find these "young specimens".

Author's notes: I have a rather strange embarrassment associated with the scaly leaf. Seeing a large, shaggy, whitish mushroom on a neighbor's pillar, erected only quite recently, for some reason I decided that I was seeing destructive flakes, which are all too often found in the Venevsky district; saw, and instead of critically comprehending what he saw, he composed a story that careless electricians put poplar instead of the ordered pine (or spruce) pillar, having cut down a random tree in the trash heap, and the mushroom gave them away. The story may be spectacular, but completely unreliable, and worse, easily verifiable: the refutation is pecked out by itself after the first clean glance at the photograph of the "scale". Of course, this is a real sleeper mushroom, which means that the electricians suffered feuilleton criticism in vain. The pillar for our neighbors was really coniferous - the mushroom won't lie. That's how a person would be.

The wire on the right adds technogenicity to the picture. A sleeper-and-pillar mushroom, a scaly leaf-leaf, rose on a practically new electric pole, and stayed in a relatively unchanged form for a good month, and then suddenly disappeared somewhere overnight. Presumably, the nerves of the neighbors could not stand it - apparently, they have met little "eternal" mushrooms so far. And Lentinus lepideus is just one of those, and the epithet "edible at a young age" can actually mean that it should be collected only in the first three days out of thirty possible.

Growing up on a decent substrate, not on a post or fence, Neolentinus lepideus looks quite respectable, more like some very large scale.

When put in a research perspective, the scaly sawfoot demonstrates all the qualities of a strong mushroom, ready to overcome any difficulties on the way to a great goal. Here and scaly, and serration of the plates; the sleeper firmness of the pulp is not visible, but, undoubtedly, it is guessed.

By old age (and it can last indefinitely), the scaly saw-leaf becomes coarse, hardened, showing with all its appearance that it is not going to surrender to the inexorable time without a fight. At such a moment, it is easy to not recognize it, or even confuse it from a distance with some kind of flake.

Growing places

The peak fruiting of the sleeper fungus occurs at the beginning of the warm season and lasts until mid-autumn. The best time to harvest the scaly sawle leaf is mid-summer.Most often, this type of mushroom can be found growing on fallen and dead trees, in fact, representatives of this species feed on decaying wood. In addition to deadwood, stumps and fallen trees, groups of fungi can grow on various wood products, sleepers and telegraph poles, thereby destroying their structure. Note that in order to preserve the operational life of such products, the latter are covered with a special antiseptic. Nevertheless, this does not harm the sawfoot at all, which, on the contrary, likes such "impregnation", in fact, which is why this species got its name - the sleeper mushroom.

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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Goblet saw-leaf (Neolentinus cyathiformis)

Lentinus cyathiformis

Hat: Funnel-shaped, up to 25 cm in diameter, reddish-beige, with irregular, rather weakly expressed concentric zones; in old age fades to whitish with a dark spot in the middle. The form is at first hemispherical, with age it opens up to funnel-shaped; the edge is usually uneven. The surface is dry, slightly fleecy.

The flesh of the goblet sawfoil is white, very elastic (you can break the mushroom with only two hands), with an extremely pleasant smell, reminiscent of the smell of fruit.

Blades: Frequent, narrow, sawtooth-serrated, strongly descending along the stem (almost to the base), white in youth, then cream, darkening to dirty brown.

Spore powder: White.

Leg: Short and thick (height 3-8 cm, thickness 1-3 cm), often tapering towards the base, very rigid, almost entirely covered with plates, blackish at the base.

Distribution: Goblet sawfoot is found on the decaying remains of deciduous trees (most likely, it can parasitize living ones, causing white rot). The goblet sawfoot is a predominantly southern mushroom; it is not found so often in our area.The fruiting body lasts a long time, and the attractiveness for some, relatively speaking, rodents, leads to the fact that the mushroom is quickly gnawed than dies from old age.

Similar species: Obviously not. Rather, we can talk about synonyms. Lentinus degener, Lentinus schaefferi, Panus cyathiformis - this is not a complete list of pseudonyms of goblet sawfoot.

Edible: Information on the web is quite contradictory. We can only say with certainty that no toxic substances have yet been found in this mushroom. The most common information is that goblet sawfoot is inedible due to its too dense, "rubbery" pulp. But it is worth trying this mushroom at a young age to dispel all doubts!

Notes I discovered several colonies of these amazing mushrooms on June 14, 2003, in a birch forest, old and quiet. It seems to be the first "lamellar" mushroom that I could not break with one hand. And I failed with both hands - I had to twist and tear. Of course, this could not fail to inspire respect. I firmly decided to find out what the name of this find of mine is.

The answer was found only after a year and a half. Knowledgeable people advised me to look among the saw-leaves, pointing to Lentinus cyathiformis as a guide. I didn't have to go far: he is.

The mushroom is, of course, quite southern. If we take amateur mushroom sites, then in the Czech Republic and Slovakia it is still considered quite rare (but it is already being considered, in contrast to our resources), and in Bulgaria it is completely in the order of things. At the same time, findings of goblet sawfoot were also noted in Denmark.

That is, in fact, almost everything that I managed to find out. It is also known that Lentinus cyathiformis causes white rot of wood, and some institutes for some reason sell a strain of this fungus over the Internet (and a large discount is offered to buyers representing non-profit organizations). And, of course, the traditional war of synonyms. Where in mycology without it.

Now I think: has something changed because I learned how specially trained people call the mushroom I found? Although, of course, this is a very commonplace thought, and it is a shame to think of it.

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).

Interesting facts about the mushroom

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The goblet saw-leaf mushroom belongs to the Saw-leaf genus. On the plates they have characteristic "teeth", for which this genus got its name.

They are affiliated mushrooms. They have a destructive effect on wood. Under their influence, the tree rots. Therefore, this mushroom is capable of causing considerable harm to the household. Another version of the origin of the name is the ability to act destructively on wood.

More than 1000 species of mushrooms belong to this genus. Some sources say that today the genus reads several thousand species.

Almost all species belonging to this genus are conditionally edible. But among them there are also inedible species, of which there are few. In China and Japan, it is believed that edible sawleaf is an absolutely edible mushroom.

Among all saw-leaves, there are several species in which mushroom pickers are sure, and always collect. It is tiger, shell-shaped, and also scaly saw-leaf.

The following species are also known to be inedible and have no nutritional value. They are goblet, wolfish, and furrowed species. The rest of the species of this genus are poorly studied by science or grow in countries far from Russia.

The goblet sawfoil received part of the name for the fact that they have the property of destroying the tree. The second part of the name is associated with the shape of the fruiting body. It acquires the shape of a glass already in adulthood.

Fact!

This fungus is a saprotroph that destroys wood. It usually destroys wood that is prone to rotting. They grow on deadwood in the forest, on the stumps of trees of various species, including conifers.

Some sources say that all members of the genus are poisonous mushrooms. Others say that it is simply inedible. But it would be advisable to divide these types into those that can be eaten and those that cannot. There is no exact scientific evidence on how poisonous are those mushrooms of this genus that should not be eaten.

The considered species goblet sawfoot is considered practically unsuitable for human consumption. It does not contain poisons, but it does not have good taste, and the composition of the mushroom does not carry any nutritional value.

Mushrooms of Russia (41 pages)

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.

Cooking methods

Saw leaves are not suitable for boiling or frying. They can only be prepared by salting or pickling. They need preliminary preparation. These mushrooms need to be washed well and soaked for 10-12 hours. Then they should be boiled in salted water for 20-25 minutes.

In Ukrainian and Russian cuisine, mushrooms are rarely cooked, only if there are no other, more valuable species. But among Koreans, Japanese and Chinese, this representative of the mushroom kingdom is well known and widespread. When consumed regularly, it is believed to inhibit the development of tumors and help strengthen the immune system.

Important! Due to its specific habitat, the sleeper mushroom is almost impossible to confuse with other species. However, in appearance, the goblet and tiger sawn leaves are similar to it.

Thus, the scaly leaf is a not very common edible mushroom. Its taste is mediocre. It is suitable only for pickling and pickling and requires mandatory preliminary preparation.