ເຫັດຂອນຂາວ / White Log Mushroom

Use
Food
Income
Scientific Name / Family
Lentinus squarrosulus Mont. / Polyporaceae
Synonyms
Lentinus bavianus Pat., Lentinus caespitosus Curr., Lentinus crenulatus Massee, Lentinus cretaceus Berk. & Broome, Lentinus curreyanus Sacc. & Cub., Lentinus hygrometricus Berk., Lentinus inconspicuus Berk., Lentinus leucochrous Lév., Lentinus lobatus Berk. & Broome, Lentinus manipularis Berk. & Broome, Lentinus melanopus Pat., Lentinus molliceps Fr.
Other Names
ເຫັດຂາວ (Het khao)
Thai: Het khon khao
Chinese: 翹鱗香菇 (Qiào lín xiānggū)
Botanical Description

Cap 1−12 cm wide, convex then plane and umbilicate to infundibuliform, dry, opaque, more or less furfuraceous−squamulose with small and often subrevolute scales, varying appressedly subsquamulose; margin often becoming lacerate. Stem 1−6 cm x 2.5−7 mm, more or less excentric, rarely lateral, subcylindric, fibrous, scurfy−squamulose downwards to the abrupt and often blackish base, in some cases with a slight floccose zone or short collar at the stem−apex. Gills deeply decurrent, crowded, thin, 38−60 primaries 1.5−9 mm wide, 4−6 ranks but in some cases also dichotomous especially near the stem apex, occasionally slightly reticulate at the base, edge entire; hyphal pegs abundant. Flesh 1−2.5 mm thick in the centre of the cap, dry, tough, flaccid. (www.mycobank.org)

Description of Use

This is a very popular mushroom in Lao cooking, especially in soups. While it resembles het bot, the young cap of het khao, 2 cm−8 cm in diameter, is white and turns light−brown when older. These mushrooms are often dried and later eaten uncooked, but they first need to be softened in water for 15 minutes. Among them, L. squarrosulus contained 10.68% and 9.25% of monosodium glutamate−like and sweet amino acids. (Zhou et al. 2015)

 

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