Red mushroom pictures

Pleurotus ostreatus, also known as true red mushroom, big red mushroom, red vertebra, big red fungus, big Zhu mushroom and so on, belong to the genus Pleurotus ostreatus of the family Pleurotus ostreatus, with delicious taste and high nutritional value. In addition to food, it can also be used for medicinal purposes, especially for tonifying blood, pregnant women and the anemic. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the local government sent a batch of red mushrooms to Kyoto to pay tribute, so it is famous.

The fruiting body of Pleurotus ostreatus is generally medium-large, the cap diameter is 5-12 cm, the initial flat hemispherical, sticky when young, dull or velvety, the middle color is dark red to dark (black) red, the edge is light red, the cover edge is often seen with fine horizontal lines. The fungus is white, thick and often eaten by worms. The bacterial fold is white, becomes milky yellow when old, can be reddish near the lid margin, slightly dense to slightly thin, often bifurcated, with transverse veins between the folds. Stalk long white, one side or base with light coral red, cylindrical or downward tapering, solid or soft. Spores imprinted white or very pale gray-white. The spores are colorless, subglobose, verrucose, and the cysts are nearly fusiform.

Pleurotus ostreatus is a kind of mycorrhizal fungi which is symbiotic with the roots of trees such as Castanopsis kawakamii and Castanopsis kawakamii in summer and autumn. it is mainly found in Yanling County of Hunan, Pubei County of Qinzhou, Guangxi, Funiu Mountain of Henan Province (Fangcheng County, Nanzhao County, etc.), Wuyi Mountain of Fujian (famous for high-altitude red mushrooms), Sanming and other places. Jiangxi (Ganzhou), Sichuan, southern Shaanxi, Yunnan, Liaoning, Hubei and other places are also distributed.

Pleurotus ostreatus is rich in nutritional value, contains a variety of essential amino acids and other ingredients, with the treatment of tumors, especially lung tumor, waist and leg pain, hand and foot numbness, muscle and bone discomfort, limb convulsions and blood, nourishing yin, cool detoxification and treatment of anemia, edema, malnutrition and maternal bleeding and other diseases, but also has the role of increasing body immunity and anti-cancer, regular consumption, can make people's skin moist, energetic, prolong life.