Merging albatrellus , also merging tinder ( Latin: Albatréllus cónfluens ), is a type of mushroom - basidiomycetes , belonging to the genus Albatrellus of the Albatrellaceae family.
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It is easily identified by large pinkish-beige fruiting bodies with a tubular hymenophore, in the color of which there are no lemon-yellow tones.
A species widespread in Eurasia and North America, in America it is considered a good edible mushroom with a specific taste, in Europe it is less valued than a close relative of sheep albatrellus .
Content
- 1 Description
- 2 Value
- 3 Ecology and range
- 4 Synonyms
- 5 notes
- 6 Literature
Description
Fruit bodies are hat-legged, annuals, often in the form of several hats on a branched stalk. Caps from rounded to fan-shaped or irregularly lobate, up to 11 cm in the largest dimension and up to 3 cm thick, the upper surface is pinkish-beige, with drying, salmon-pink, often cracking with age with separate sections.
The hymenophore is tubular, cream-colored, when dried, becomes salmon-pink. Pores from round to angular, 3-5 per millimeter, with thick partitions.
Leg central to lateral, cream or pinkish-beige, glabrous; when dried, salmon-pink, wrinkled, up to 8.5 cm long.
The pulp is soft and fleshy, creamy, when dried, pinkish-yellowish-brown, when dried, hardened, tarry, often with a pleasant smell, with a peculiar cabbage taste and a bitter aftertaste.
The hyphal system is monomitic. Cystides are absent. Four-spore basidia , club-shaped, 20-30 × 6-7.5 microns. Spores are ovoid or elliptical, unpainted, 4-5 × 2.5-3.5 microns.
Value
Edible mushroom, has a specific bitter taste, is relatively rare in Europe. In North America, it is valued higher, it is considered a good quality mushroom with a peculiar taste and texture.
In 1948, grifolin , a terpenoid compound with antibiotic activity, was isolated from the fruiting bodies of the fungus in Japan. Also, in experiments with rats, the property of grifolin to reduce blood cholesterol was shown.
In 1992, polysaccharides with antitumor properties were found in fruit bodies and mycelium of the tinder fungus in Japan.
Ecology and range
It occurs on the ground in coniferous forests, most likely forming mycorrhiza. Occasionally observed in deciduous forests.
It has a circumboreal range that coincides with the range of the main conifer species.
Synonyms
- Albatrellopsis confluens (Alb. & Schwein.) Teixeira , 1993
- Boletus artemidorus Lenz , 1830
- Boletus aurantius Schaeff. , 1774
- Boletus confluens Alb. & Schwein., 1805 : Fr., 1821 basionym non Boletus confluens Schumach. 1803 , qe Coltricia perennis ( L .: Fr.) Murrill , 1903
- Boletus nitens JFGmel. , 1792
- Caloporus confluens (Alb. & Schwein.) Quél. , 1888
- Caloporus politus ( Fr. ) Quél., 1886
- Cladomeris confluens (Alb. & Schwein.) Quél., 1886
- Merisma confluens (Alb. & Schwein.) Gillet , 1878
- Polypilus confluens (Alb. & Schwein.) P. Karst . , 1881
- Polyporus artemidorus (Lenz) Fr., 1838
- Polyporus confluens (Alb. & Schwein.) Fr., 1821
- Polyporus laeticolor ( Murrill ) Sacc. & D.Sacc. , 1905
- Polyporus pachypus Pers., 1825
- Polyporus politus Fr., 1836
- Polyporus whiteae (Murrill) Sacc. & D.Sacc., 1905
- Scutiger confluens (Alb. & Schwein.) Bondartsev & Singer , 1941
- Scutiger confluens f. politus (Fr.) Bondartsev, 1953
- Scutiger laeticolor Murrill, 1903
- Scutiger whiteae Murrill, 1903
Notes
Literature
- Ryvarden, L .; Gilbertson, RL European polypores. Part 1. - 1993. - P. 87. - 387 p. - (Synopsis Fungorum, Vol. 6). - ISBN 82-90724-12-8 .
- Hobbs, C. Medicinal Mushrooms. - 1986. - 251 p. - ISBN 1-57067-143-5 .