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ເຫັດເຜາະຝ້າຍ / Cotton Ball Mushroom

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Use
Food
Income
Medicine
Scientific Name / Family
Astraeus asiaticus Phosri, M.P. Martín & Watling / Diplocystidiaceae
Synonyms
Other Names
Thai: Het thop fai
Botanical Description

Fruiting bodies globose with dense white mycelium. Immature fruiting bodies 1−1.5 cm in diameter, 1–1.8 mm tall, and cream colored. Mature fruiting bodies 1.5–2.7 cm in diameter, 1.4–1.7 cm tall, including ornamentation, purplish chestnut in color and very densely ornamented with rounded, narrow, tapered, occasionally coalescent, spines 0.90−1.45 µm long (Phosri et al., 2007).

Description of Use

Food: Collected from forest. Fruiting bodies are cleaned and cooked in soups with bamboo or vegetables. It is also good in fish soup and mixed with other mushrooms.

References / Citations
Fangfuk, W., Petchang, R. To-anun, C. Fukuda, M., & A.Yamada. 2010. Identification of Japanese Astraeus, based on morphological and phylogenetic analyses. Mycoscience 51(4):291−299.
Pavithra, M., Greeshma, A.A., Karun, N.C., & Sridhar, K.R., 2015. Observations on the Astraeus spp. of Southwestern India. Mycosphere 6(4):421–432.
Phosri, C., Martín, M.P., & Watling, R., 2013. Astraeus: Hidden dimensions. IMA FUNgUs 4(2):347–356. doi:10.5598/imafungus.2013.04.02.13
Phosri, C., Watling, R., Suwannasai, N., Wilson A., & Martín, M.P. 2014. A new representative of star-shaped fungi: Astraeus sirindhorniae sp. nov. from Thailand. PLoS ONE 9(5):e71160. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071160
Pimjuk, P., Phosri, C., Wauke, T., & McCloskeya, S., 2015. The isolation of two new lanostane triterpenoid derivatives from the edible mushroom Astraeus asiaticus. Phytochemistry Letters 14:76−83.
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