hericium coralloides is conditionally edible mushrooms and belongs to the third category.Macromycetes listed in the Red Book of Russia.Another of his name - geritsy staghorn.This is a unique and very beautiful mushroom.Sometimes it is a parasite on the trees.As is known, the name of the fungus is most often chosen for a reason.By their appearance it is very similar to the macromycetes underwater coral and sea urchin.This fungus is eaten boiled, steamed, roasted, salted and pickled.
Description
hericium coralloides at a young age is really very similar to the delicate snow-white coral.As reaching maturity it becomes creamy and then dirty yellow.Its fruiting body has an irregular shape.It is bushy, branching in diameter reaches 5-30 cm in height - up to 30 cm. Hericium staghorn has a fibrous, elastic, fleshy, white, slightly pinkish flesh with a pleasant mushroom flavor.When it gets dry ocher color.From touching the flesh is red, and then becomes solid.
spores from the fungus colorless or white, small, ball-shaped, smooth.Repeatedly branched rounded hollow shoots are connected at the bottom of a short pseudopodia (diameter - 1 cm).The entire length of it is covered drooping downward cylindrical studs (0.5-1.5 cm), which are responsible for the formation of spores.Mycelium from this macromycetes perennial and fruit body - annual.It should be remembered that the only edible when young staghorn blackberries.Photo macromycetes this can be seen in this article.In appearance it resembles another edible fungus called geritsy prialpiysky.It grows on the fir.
Habitat
hericium coralloides grows in small clusters or singly on dead hardwoods at stumps or wood substrate.Amazing pictures are a series of hanging from trees or dirty whitish-yellow fruiting bodies.To meet this fungus can not often.It is widely distributed in the northern temperate zone.On the territory of the Russian Federation fungus is found almost everywhere.Blackberries growing staghorn mostly on birches.Less often it can be found on the lime trees, alder, aspen, oak trees.Occasionally found in coniferous forests.The fungus is a facultative parasite and often grows in hollows of live trees.Collect it can be in July-September, and in regions with a mild and warm climate even in winter-spring period.The reasons for the small number of macromycetes not been fully elucidated.
hericium coralloides: useful properties
In China, the macromycetes actively used for the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, nervous and respiratory systems, as well as to enhance immunity.Ingestion of this mushroom stimulates the formation of blood and tones the body.It is used for the preparation of certain recipes of various liqueurs.If you comply with all terms and proportions, you can get effective treatment of this fungus.Infusions coral ezhovika healers used to remove people from the protracted depression.
