Tiger sawfoot (lentinus tigrinus): what it looks like, where and how it grows, edible or not

Season and habitat of the mushroom

Summer-autumn, from late July to September (for central Russia). In the southern regions - from April. It grows in rather large intergrowths and groups on valezha, stumps and trunks of predominantly deciduous species: oak, poplar, willow, and fruit trees. It is not often found, but it does not belong to rare mushrooms. Distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, the mushroom is known in Europe and Asia. Tiger sawfoot is harvested in the Urals, in the forests of the Far East and in the vast Siberian wild forest thickets. Feels great in forest belts, parks, on roadsides, especially in those places where poplars were massively cut down. Can grow in urban areas.

Excerpt from Tiger Sawfoot

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Mushrooms used in traditional medicine

There are varieties of mushrooms of this type, which are effectively used in folk medicine for the treatment of various diseases, they are introduced into the composition of medicinal tinctures, decoctions, added to ointments:

• larch sponge (Fomitopsis officinalis) or agaricus. Mushrooms are white or pale yellow in color, oblong in shape, similar to the hoof of an animal. They can weigh up to 10 kg. They grow on coniferous trees or larch stumps. When used in the composition of the drug, it weakens, stops the blood, soothes, acts as a mild sleeping pill. Used to reduce perspiration;

Tiger saw-leaf (Lentinus tigrinus)

Synonyms:

• Clitocybe tigrina
• Lentodium tigrinum
• Panus tigrinus

Mushroom Tiger Sawfoot, or Lentinus tigrinus, is considered a wood-destroying fungus. According to its taste, it is considered a conditionally edible mushroom of the third, and sometimes the fourth category. It has a high protein content and excellent mycelium digestibility, but becomes quite tough in adulthood.

External description

Hat: 4-8 (up to 10) cm in diameter. Dry, dense, leathery. White, whitish, slightly yellowish, creamy, nutty. Covered with concentrically located brown, almost black fibrous bristly scales, often darker and densely located in the center of the cap.
In young mushrooms, it is convex with a tucked edge, later it is depressed in the center, it can acquire a funnel-shaped shape, with a thin, often uneven and bursting edge.

Plates: descending, frequent, narrow, white, yellowing to ocher with age, with a slightly but quite noticeably uneven, jagged edge.

Stem: 3-8 cm high and up to 1.5 cm wide, central or eccentric. Dense, stiff, even, or slightly curved. Cylindrical, narrowed towards the base, at the very bottom it can be stretched out in a tapered manner and immersed in the wood. It may have some kind of ring-shaped "band" below the attachment of the plates. White at the plates, below the "belt" - darker, brownish, brownish. Covered with small concentric, brownish, sparse scales.

Flesh: thin, dense, tough, leathery. White, whitish, sometimes turns yellow with age.

Smell and taste: no particular smell or taste. Some sources indicate a "pungent" smell. Apparently, for the formation of taste and smell, it is of great importance on the stump of which tree the saw-leaf grew.

Spore powder: white.
Spores 7-8x3-3.5 microns, ellipsoidal, colorless, smooth.

Season and habitat of the mushroom

Summer-autumn, from late July to September (for central Russia). In the southern regions - from April. It grows in rather large intergrowths and groups on valezha, stumps and trunks of predominantly deciduous species: oak, poplar, willow, and fruit trees. It is not often found, but it does not belong to rare mushrooms.
Distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, the mushroom is known in Europe and Asia. Tiger sawfoot is harvested in the Urals, in the forests of the Far East and in the vast Siberian wild forest thickets. Feels great in forest belts, parks, on roadsides, especially in those places where poplars were massively cut down. Can grow in urban areas.

Edibility

In various sources, the mushroom is indicated as edible, but with varying degrees of edibility. The information on taste is also very contradictory. Basically, the mushroom is ranked among the little-known edible mushrooms of poor quality (due to the tough pulp). However, at a young age, tiger sawfoot is quite suitable for eating, especially the hat. Pre-boiling is recommended. The mushroom is suitable for salting and pickling, can be eaten boiled or fried (after boiling).

Other information about the mushroom

In some sources, the mushroom belongs to the poisonous or inedible type of mushroom. But there is currently no evidence of the toxicity of tiger sawfoot.

Tiger saw-leaf (Lentinus tigrinus)

Current title

Systematic position

Etymology of the species epithet

Tigrinus, a, um, brindle (i.e. striped). From tigris, is m, f, tiger or tigress + -inus, quality.

Synonyms

Habit

Fruit body: Cap and stem (agaricoid)

Hymenophore: Lamellar (including folded or with rudimentary plates)

Hat

The cap is 1 - 10 cm in diameter, first convex with a depression in the center, then funnel-shaped, with the edge turned down, dry, fleshy-leathery, white, creamy or yellowish. Covered with large and small, usually adjacent, radially diverging scales.

The plates are descending, narrow, whitish-cream, with an uneven serrated-serrated, sometimes split edge.

Leg

The stem is thin, about 0.5 cm in diameter and 3 - 5 cm long, narrowed, central or eccentric, brownish, with small black-brown scales, darker towards the base.

Pulp

The pulp is white, dense, reddening at the break.

Microscopy

The hyphae system is dimitic. Generative hyphae 2.5 - 8 μm in diameter, with buckles, moderately branching in the pedicle and pulp of the cap, densely located in the mediostratus of the plates with the formation of an irregular or subdivergent tram, in the cuticle (epicutis) radially located hyaline or with thickened brownish walls, strongly swollen (up to 8 μm in diameter).

Skeletal hyphae 2 - 5 µm in diameter, hyaline, predominate in the pedicle.

Cheilocystids 30 - 50 × 3 - 7.5 µm, cylindrical to almost clavate, thick-walled, hyaline, in pegs.

Pleurocystids are absent; in hymenia, hyphae pegs are common (hyphae 2 - 5 µm wide).

Basidia 25 - 35 × 4 - 7.5 µm, elongate-clavate, 4-spore, with a well-defined central constriction and a buckle at the base.

Spores 6 - 10 × 2.5 - 3.5 µm, cylindrical to almond-shaped, slightly unequal, hyaline, smooth, thin-walled, not amyloid; white in bulk.

Ecology and distribution

Substance: Woody plants (living trees, bark and dead wood)

It grows in groups on stumps and valez of deciduous species.

There is no information about the location in the Novosibirsk region.

Fruiting

June - September.

The divisions correspond to the decades of the month.

Nutritional properties

Only young fruiting bodies can be consumed. With age, it becomes tough, "rubbery".

Similar species

Small-scaled neolentinus (Neolentinus lepideus) - grows on stumps and valezh of conifers.

Related materials

1. Zmitrovich I.V., Malysheva V.F., Malysheva E.F., Spirin V.A.Pleurotoid fungi of the Leningrad region. - SPb .: "VIZR", 2004. - 124 p. - S. 81.
2. Gorlenko M.V., Bondartseva M.A., Garibova L.V., Sidorova I.I., Sizova T.P. Mushrooms of the USSR. - M .: "Mysl", 1980. - 303 p. - P. 186.

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Specialists say that ours is L. lepideus, not tigrinus. It grows on deciduous wood, and ours is purely coniferous. Fig knows, they look alike ...

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Description of the edible mushroom

Saw-leaf scaly - this is how the sleeper mushroom is also called. Its Latin names are Neolentinus lepideus or Lentinus lepideus. It belongs to the genus Neolentinus of the Polyporov family, according to some sources - the Gleofillovs.

The cap grows up to 18 cm in diameter, convex at a young age, later becomes flat or even slightly depressed in the center. The body is fleshy, the surface is white, can be gray and brown, almost always with dark flakes, especially in the middle.

The flesh of the mushroom is tough, white, in the place of the cut it can acquire a reddish color, the smell is weak, but pleasant, the taste is insipid.

The hymenophore, or the lower part of the cap, consists of densely spaced plates with a somewhat serrated edge and descending downward. The color is white, as in the spores. May have a gray or yellowish tint.

The leg reaches 7 cm in length, and up to 2.5 cm in diameter. The shape is cylindrical, slightly narrowed at the bottom. White, covered with scales of a reddish tone.

The sleepy mushroom is described by the Swedish botanist and mycologist Elias Magnus Fries.

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

Definitioner

Lat. Basidia. A specialized structure of sexual reproduction in fungi, inherent only in Basidiomycetes. Basidia are terminal (end) elements of hyphae of various shapes and sizes, on which spores develop exogenously (outside).

Basidia are diverse in structure and method of attachment to hyphae.

According to the position relative to the axis of the hypha, to which they are attached, three types of basidia are distinguished:

Apical basidia are formed from the terminal cell of the hypha and are located parallel to its axis.

Pleurobasidia are formed from lateral processes and are located perpendicular to the axis of the hypha, which continues to grow and can form new processes with basidia.

Subasidia are formed from a lateral process, turned perpendicular to the axis of the hypha, which, after the formation of one basidium, stops its growth.

Based on morphology:

Holobasidia - unicellular basidia, not divided by septa (see Fig. A, D.).

Phragmobasidia are divided by transverse or vertical septa, usually into four cells (see Fig. B, C).

By type of development:

Heterobasidia consists of two parts - hypobasidia and epibasidia developing from it, with or without partitions (see Fig. C, B) (see Fig. D).

Homobasidia is not divided into hypo- and epibasidia and in all cases is considered holobasidia (Fig. A).

Basidia is the place of karyogamy, meiosis and the formation of basidiospores. Homobasidia, as a rule, is not functionally divided, and meiosis follows karyogamy in it. However, basidia can be divided into probasidia - the site of karyogamy and metabasidia - the site of meiosis. Probasidium is often a dormant spore, for example in rust fungi. In such cases, probazidia grows with metabasidia, in which meiosis occurs and on which basidiospores are formed (see Fig. E).

See Karyogamy, Meiosis, Gifa.

Amyloid (Amyloid structure)

The structure is called amyloid if from Melzer's reagent (solution of 0.5 g of crystalline iodine + 1.5 g of potassium iodide + 20 ml of chloral hydrate + 20 ml of distilled water) turns blue, violet, sometimes almost black.

Description of the scaly leaf

The cap of a young saw-leaf is convex, later it straightens out and becomes like a funnel with thin edges.

The diameter of the cap of an adult specimen does not exceed 10 centimeters. The surface of the cap is dry. Its color can be light brown, off-white or yellow. Brown or brown scales are clearly visible on the surface.The scales become larger towards the center.

There are plates under the cap of the scaly saw-leaf, with large serrations visible along their edges. The color of the plates is yellowish or dirty brown. The mushroom pulp at a young age is elastic, white, but later it hardens, so only young specimens are collected. The pulp gives off a fresh mushroom aroma.

The leg is solid, towards the base it becomes narrower. The leg is stiff to the touch. Its shape is cylindrical, often curved. The color of the leg is off-white. The surface of the leg is covered with reddish scales.

Areas of growth of scaly saw-leaves

Squamous saw-leaves bear fruit from June to October. The largest number of these mushrooms can be found in July.

These saw-leaves grow on dead wood. They are active destroyers of dead trees. If mushrooms did not process trees that died for various reasons, then the forest would be too littered, and there would be no place for new growth. This work is successfully coped with scaly saw-leaves. These are unpretentious mushrooms that settle on dead wood and stumps. Scaly sawnifers give preference to dead needles.

Mushrooms damage wood products. They can settle on sleepers, telegraph poles and the like. To preserve wood products longer, they are treated with an antiseptic. Such impregnation significantly increases the service life of the wood. But there is a type of mushroom that only likes such an impregnation, these mushrooms are precisely the scaly-leaved leaves, for which they called him "sleeper".

Using stumps to grow mushrooms

Stumps can be used to grow oyster mushrooms. This is easy to do, for example, at a summer cottage. To do this, you need a shady area or a room and a few hardwood stumps (birch, aspen, apple tree, pear, acacia, poplar). Coniferous crops are not suitable for these purposes.

The stumps should not be old, ideally if they are freshly sawn. Dry ones will need to be soaked in water for several days. Their sizes do not play a fundamental difference. Convenient segments with a diameter of 15 to 40 cm and a height of 40 to 50 cm.

Oyster mushrooms can be grown both in open areas and indoors. If you plan to place stumps on the street, then the place should be in the shade and well ventilated. At temperatures below + 20 ° C, a cover with agrofibre will be required. The optimal time for planting is April-May and August-September. The mycelium takes three months to germinate.

There are several ways to stack the logs. In each of them, you will need to dig a ditch at least 30 cm deep and wide corresponding to the diameter of the wooden blanks. If there are supports for the logs, you can not dig the ground, but place stumps on its surface.

There are also several ways to introduce mycelium into the stump - for example, by drilling holes, by cutting off the upper part, building a pyramid from chocks with several layers of mycelium, etc.

In winter, stumps will need to be brought into the room or covered with straw or agrofibre.

Important! An important condition for growing oyster mushrooms in an open area is regular moistening of the soil around the stumps. A drip irrigation system is best suited for these purposes.

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It is most convenient to lay the logs after sowing with mycelium in the basement or shed horizontally, on top of each other. From above, they are covered with burlap or perforated film.

With vertical installation of logs, columns are made of them and covered with straw, sawdust. From the sides, the columns are covered with foil or burlap.

The air in the room must be constantly humid. Frequent ventilation is required.

In May, stumps can be transplanted into the ground in the open air.

Reasons for the growth of mushroom stumps

Individuals settling in this way are classified as saprophytic fungi that feed on the remains of various microorganisms. They parasitize on the body of a stump or a living tree, destroying the wood.Fungal spores spread in places of damage, forming a mycelium, which allows fungi to go deeper into the wood, affecting it.

Causes of fungi on stumps:

1. Mechanical damage (saw cut, breaking off).
2. Irregular garden maintenance.
3. Damage to trees by pests.
4. Special colonization of fungal spores on stumps or trees for the purpose of cultivating edible species.

Wood-destroying edible mushrooms grown in households or on large farms (mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, shiitake) have become a source of good profit in modern business.

Poisonous wood-destroying organisms cause irreparable harm to fruit trees, leading to their death and contamination of the entire garden. Therefore, trees affected by such parasites should be uprooted and destroyed in time to prevent the spread of fungal spores to other plants.

Description of the mushroom Tiger saw-leaf

Tiger saw-leaf is similar in shape to funnels, up to 10 cm in diameter, white or yellowish in color, on a thin stalk, with a fleece of small brown scales on the cap and with plates under the cap.

When does Tiger Sawfoot grow?

We met this mushroom in April and October. The handbook says that tiger saw-leaf bears fruit from June to September, but at this time we also have mushrooms that are more interesting for picking, so we probably didn't notice scaly saw-leaves at such a time :-).

Where is tiger sawfoot harvested?

In general, tiger saw-leaf grows on fallen deciduous trees. In our particular case, we meet it mainly at the base of the trunk and on the stumps of old willows near water bodies.

Can tiger saw-leaf be eaten?

In adulthood, the cap of this mushroom is hard, like the sole of a shoe, and the legs are even harder, so the old mushroom is not suitable for food. But if you catch the moment when the tiger saw-leaves have just come out and still retain their soft consistency, then it is quite possible to feast on them. In this regard, they resemble such an edible mushroom as scaly tinder fungus (pestle). Saw-leaf scaly should be boiled for 20-25 minutes, and then cooked like ordinary mushrooms.

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External description

Hat: 4-8 (up to 10) cm in diameter. Dry, dense, leathery. White, whitish, slightly yellowish, creamy, nutty. Covered with concentrically located brown, almost black fibrous bristly scales, often darker and densely located in the center of the cap. In young mushrooms, it is convex with a tucked edge, later it is depressed in the center, it can acquire a funnel-shaped shape, with a thin, often uneven and bursting edge.

Plates: descending, frequent, narrow, white, yellowing to ocher with age, with a slightly but quite noticeably uneven, jagged edge.

Stem: 3-8 cm high and up to 1.5 cm wide, central or eccentric. Dense, stiff, even, or slightly curved. Cylindrical, narrowed towards the base, at the very bottom it can be stretched out in a tapered manner and immersed in the wood. It may have some kind of ring-shaped "band" below the attachment of the plates. White at the plates, below the "belt" - darker, brownish, brownish. Covered with small concentric, brownish, sparse scales.

Flesh: thin, dense, tough, leathery. White, whitish, sometimes turns yellow with age.

Smell and taste: no particular smell or taste. Some sources indicate a "pungent" smell. Apparently, for the formation of taste and smell, it is of great importance on the stump of which tree the saw-leaf grew.

Spore powder: white. Spores 7-8x3-3.5 microns, ellipsoidal, colorless, smooth.

False doubles

Due to the fact that the mushroom grows in strictly defined places, it is rather difficult to confuse it with others. At the same time, there are still varieties that look similar to him. You can see them better in the photo.

Mostly connoisseurs are engaged in the collection of saw-leaves, many indicate the excellent taste of the mushroom. It is worth noting that the well-known Shiitake also belongs to this genus.

Types of sawfoot mushroom

Tiger saw-leaf (Lentinus tigrinus)

Conditionally edible mushroom.

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.

Edible species of mushrooms growing on tree stumps

Sometimes it is not easy to recognize edible mushrooms, but special signs are clearly visible in the photo, and the name and description of each just need to be remembered.

The most popular edible mushrooms growing on living or rotten wood in nature or grown artificially are red and yellow mushrooms, located in nature in groups on old coniferous stumps (spruce, pine). They are widely used in cooking. They are pickled, fried, canned, salted, without fear for their health.

Due to the content of a large amount of trace elements (copper, zinc) involved in the formation of blood cells, eating honey agaric has a beneficial effect on the body. However, among honey agarics there are their counterparts, which are called false and are poisonous. A distinctive feature is the presence of a ringlet on a leg in edible fruits. There are such varieties of edible mushrooms:

winter honey agaric (Flammulina velutipes). It is often striking due to its bright orange color. The cap has a smooth transition from bright to dark shade, thickening towards the center. The leg is covered with fine fibers. The pulp is whitish, with a pronounced mushroom aroma. Due to good resistance to low temperatures, winter mushrooms can be found in winter under the snow on damaged wood of deciduous trees (willow, poplar);

Other edible mushrooms:

• oyster mushroom (Pleurotus cornucopiae). The funnel-shaped hat of light gray color (3-12 cm) gave the name to the oyster mushroom. The leg is centrally located, (2-6 cm), covered with small plates. White, somewhat compacted firm pulp with a delicate odor. You can observe the spread of oyster mushrooms on deciduous stumps;

The presented varieties of mushrooms, although they belong to edible ones, however, require careful heat treatment before cooking.