ເຫັດເຜິ້ງຂາວ / White King Bolete Mushroom

Use
Food
Income
Scientific Name / Family
Boletus edulis Bull. / Boletaceae
Synonyms
Boletus betulicola (Vassilkov) Pilát & Dermek
Boletus citrinus A. Venturi
Boletus clavipes (Peck) Pilát & Dermek
Boletus edulis subsp. betulicola (Vassilkov) Hlaváček
Boletus edulis subsp. clavipes (Peck) Singer
Tubiporus edulis (Bull.) P. Karst
Other Names
King Bolete Mushroom
Botanical Description

Fruiting body ca. 35 cm tall. Cap of this mushroom is 7–30 cm, broad at maturity, slightly sticky to touch, it is convex in shape when young and flattens with age. The colour is generally reddish−brown fading to white in areas near the margin, and continues to darken as it matures. The stipe, or stem, is 8–25 cm in height, and up to 7 cm, thick−rather large in comparison to the cap;  it is club−shaped, or bulges out in the middle. It is finely reticulate on the upper portion, but smooth or irregularly ridged on the lower part. The under surface of the cap is made of thin tubes, the site of spore production; they are 1 to 2 cm deep, and whitish in colour when young, but mature to a greenish−yellow. The angular pores, which do not stain when bruised, are small—roughly 2 to 3 pores per millimeter. The spore print is olive brown.

Description of Use

Food: local menu is soup with bamboo or vegetables, in natural, fruiting body is food for wild animal as rat, turtles or earth worm. Medicinal: treatment stomachache, make drying for sold. Carbohydrates make up the bulk of the fruit bodies, comprising 9.23% of the fresh weight (see table), and 65.4% of the dry weight. The total lipid, or crude fat, content makes up 2.6% of the dry matter of the mushroom. The proportion of fatty acids are: palmitic acid, 9.8%; stearic acid, 2.7%; oleic acid, 36.1%; linoleic acid, 42.2%, and linolenic acid, 0.2%.

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