The young tambourine fungus buds are spherical, with three layers of peridium, the outer peridium is thin, smooth, grayish-white or light brownish-red; the middle layer is gelatinous; the inner peridium is tough and fleshy. At maturity, the peridium splits open, and the stipe pushes out the cap, which is hollow, 15-20 cm high, white, and composed of spongy pores; the peridium is left in the lower part of the stipe to form a butt; the cap is bell-shaped at the top of the stipe, and the surface of the cap is uneven as a lattice, and the concave part of it is densely covered with tamarindospores; there is a white reticulated fungus screen under the cap, which is pendulous as a skirt, and it is up to more than 8 cm in length; the spores are smooth, hyaline and ellipsoidal, and they are 3-3.5×1.5-2μm in diameter.
The basal mycelium of Dictyostelium is connected with bamboo whips and dead bamboo roots. Dictyostelium longum is mostly produced in high temperature and high humidity areas, while Dictyostelium shortum, which is the same genus, grows in warm and humid environments. The tambourine spores germinate to form mycelium, which decomposes the organic substances of bamboo and obtains nutrients through the mycelium, and then enters the reproductive growth stage, where the mycelium forms countless cords, and expands and develops into a node-like protocorm at the front end, which forms a fungus bud like an egg after more than a month's growth under suitable conditions. When the top of the buds raised as peach-shaped, more in the morning on a sunny day by the raised part of the crack, the first exposed cap, mycorrhizal stipe extension, to noon when the stipe grows to a certain height to stop elongation, mycorrhizal skirts gradually unfolded downward by the cover, the relative humidity of the air for 95%, the mycorrhizal skirt growth is normal, the temperature is too low and the humidity can not be normal when the skirt show. At 4-5 pm, the spores on the cap of the fungus matured and began to autolyze, dripping to the ground, while the whole entity shriveled up and fell down.
Bamboo fungus is a valuable edible fungus, but also a newcomer in medicine, historically listed as "Palace Tribute", and in modern times as a national banquet dish, but also a therapeutic good. Its nutrition is rich, it is determined that the dried bamboo fungus contains 19.4% of crude protein, 2.6% of crude fat, 60.4% of total soluble nitrogen-free dumping material, of which 4.2% of fungal sugar, 8.4% of crude fiber, 9.3% of ash. Its treatment of hypertension, neurasthenia, gastrointestinal diseases and other significant effects, can prevent cancer and anti-cancer, weight loss and body strengthening. Also has a special antiseptic function, summer add bamboo fungus cooking dishes, meat for many days without rancid.
The fungus grows in damp bamboo forests in autumn, and is colorful and has a fungus skirt, which is divided into long-skirted and short-skirted bamboo fungus. The fungus body is white, crisp and refreshing, with a delicious flavor, and other food **** cooking has an antiseptic effect. Each 100g of dried product contains 19.4g of crude protein, 2.6g of fat, 60.4g of carbohydrates and a variety of essential amino acids and vitamins. Mainly distributed in China's Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Hainan and other places, of which Sanming, Fujian, Nanping, and Zhaotong, Yunnan and Guizhou Zijin is the most famous.