ເຫັດລະໂງກແດງ / Caesar's mushroom

Use
Food
Income
Scientific Name / Family
Amanita caesarea (Scop.) Pers. / Amanitaceae
Synonyms
Agaricus aurantiacus Bull., Agaricus aureus Batsch, Agaricus caesareus Schaeff.
Agaricus caesareus Scop., Amanita aurantia Lam., Amanita aurantiaca Pers.
Amanita caesarea (Scop.) Pers., Amanita caesarea f. lutea (Gillet) Neville & Poumarat, Amanita caesarea var. alba Gillet, Amanita caesarea var. aurantia Gillet, Amanita caesarea (Scop.) Pers., Amanita caesarea var. lutea Gillet
Amanita caesarea var. rubra Gillet, Fungus caesareus Kuntze, Venenarius caesareus (Scop.) Murrill, Volvoamanita caesarea (Scop.) E. Horak
Other Names
Eng: Caesar's mushroom
Thai: Het La Ngok
Botanical Description

fruiting body  50−140 (−190) mm wide, bright orange−red to a duller orange, often becoming more or less paler at maturity, hemispherical then plano−convex, smooth, shiny, somewhat viscid, with a rather short−striate margin (10 − 30% of the radius).  The volva is present as large thick white patches. The flesh is white, yellow just below the cap skin, and 20 mm thick above the stem. Gills. The gills are free, 7 − 16 mm broad, yellow, sometimes forked at the margin, with a subflocculose margin.  The short gills are attenuate to truncate, plentiful. The stem is 60−130 × 15−25 mm, cylindric or enlarging downward, yellow, smooth below the ring, and slightly striated above.  The ring is ample, thick, membranous, yellow, slightly striated on the upper side, felted on the lower side.  The volva is up to 60 mm tall, saccate, ample, up to 4 or 5 mm thick, connected to the stem only at the base, remote from the stem, membranous, rather tough, white on the outer surface, white or tinted orange on the inner surface except at the point of contact with the stem where it is yellow.  The internal limb is placed rather high on the inner surface of the volva.  The flesh is firm, stuffed in the middle with cottony material, and yellow.

Description of Use

This species are edible after cooking. Good test, a bit sweet, cook with vegetable and bamboo soup. Usually soup mixed with many species of mushroom. Heavy metals (arsenic, lead ,mercury, cadmium), Organic acid ( citric acid, malic, succinic acid), Ergosterol (Valentao et al., 2005)

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