ເຫັດປວກ / Termite Mushroom
APA 6th ed. ເຫັດປວກ / Termite Mushroom. (2021, October 15). Retrieved from https://www.phakhaolao.la/index.php/kb/0000081
MLA 8th ed. ເຫັດປວກ / Termite Mushroom. Pha Khao Lao, 15 October 2021, https://www.phakhaolao.la/index.php/kb/0000081.
Chicago 17th ed. Pha Khao Lao. 2021. "ເຫັດປວກ / Termite Mushroom." Published October 15, 2021. https://www.phakhaolao.la/index.php/kb/0000081.
Eng: Termite mushroom
Fruit body medium to large size basidiome, fleshy agaric; greyish−white cap with white gills, concolorous stipe with pseudomycorrhiza; solitary, annual, odour indistinctive and edible. Cap: 4 (4.3–6.7) 8cm (n=10), greyish−white, dark−brown umbo, greyish radial fibrils, slimy during wet, smooth in dry condition, initially cone shaped becoming bluntly umbonate, finely striate, margin incurved becoming straight and then uplifted and often splitting. Lamellae: white, free, broad and crowded. Stipe: 6.9 (7.1–11.2) 12.3 x 0.9 (1.0–1.4) 1.5cm (n=10), creamish−white, con−colorous, cylindrical, tapering at the base into a slender psuedorrhiza, solid and fibrillose. Spores: 5.2 (5.5–7.8) 8.1 x 3.9 (4.2–5.2) 6μm (n=10), hyaline, broadly ellipsoidal and thin walled. Fresh weight of mature fruit bodies 10.6g (9.3–15.4 g) (n=10). Substrate: On termite mounds, usually these mounts ll are buried in soil thus the specimen appears embedded in the soil. (Greeshma et al. 2008)
Cooking with many vegetable or bamboo shoots soup and many menu from this species mushroom and popular in Laos.
− There are antioxidants. Help prevent and stop cancer.
− Strengthen the body.
− Helps the digestive system to function normally. No hemorrhoids
− help to neutralize fever. And the waste from the body.
− Help prevent sexual dysfunction.
− Helps prevent diabetes.
− Helps extend the life of HIV or AIDS patients.
− Cholesterol and sugar levels are normal. Not clogged blood vessels
− Helps the circulation of blood in the body better.
− The balance of the various systems within the body.