Barbaric Hericium (Hericium cirrhatum)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Incertae sedis (undefined)
- Order: Russulales
- Family: Hericiaceae (Hericiaceae)
- Genus: Hericium (Gericium)
- Species: Hericium cirrhatum
Synonyms:
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Antennal creolophus
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Curly gericum
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Heron's Mane
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Creolophus Cirrhatus
Antennal Hericium is a very beautiful mushroom. It resembles a blossoming flower with several fruit bodies, which are wrapped in an original way. Each of them can reach 10-12 cm, so as a result, Hericium's antennae can become quite large. The upper part is spiny or fleecy, the bottom of the body is smooth. They can grow strongly in different directions.
Fruiting body: Mushroom The antennae tendril is a fleshy, layered fruit body of a cream-white color that grows in tiers. The upper part is felt, the lower surface is covered with numerous long hanging spines. The fruit body is hemispherical. Mushroom height 15cm, diameter 10-20cm. Fan-shaped, rounded, irregularly curved, sessile, curled up, adherent to the lateral part. May be lingual and taper to the base, with a curled or dropped edge. The surface of the cap is rough, hard, with ingrown and compressed villi. The hat is one-color. At first lighter, later with a reddish raised edge. The pulp is white or pinkish.
Hymenophore: Hericium's antennae consists of soft, long and dense spines of white and later yellowish color. Thorny, the shape of the thorns is conical.
Usefulness: Hericium barbel is widely used in medicine for the treatment of various gastric diseases and for the prevention of cancer of the gastrointestinal tract. The mushroom also helps to increase the body's immunity and improve the function of the respiratory organs.
Edible: Barbaric Hericium is a delicious edible mushroom at a young age that soon becomes too tough. The mushroom can be eaten, many are very fond of such a rare and tasty delicacy. But it is not recommended to collect it, as it belongs to rare species.
Distribution: Hericium barbel is found in mixed forests on tree trunks and stumps. As a rule, it grows in tiers. The fruiting season is autumn. It is best to pick such mushrooms in late summer or at the very beginning of autumn in mixed forests. They are rarely found on the ground, but on a stump or an old tree there may be several such hedgehogs at once, which are woven into one bouquet, as if from beautifully wrapped inflorescences.
Similarity: Antennal Hericium is a bit like climacodon septentrionalis, which is more regular in shape and forms on the underside of the canola-like spines. It has no similarity with poisonous mushrooms.
Video about the herringbone mushroom:
Photo of the fungus Hericium antennae from the questions in recognition:
2018.09.15 Yuri
