Washing matsutake mushrooms before, prepare a basin of clean water, you can put some salt in the water, stirring for a while to make it melt. Then, put the matsutake mushrooms in the water to soak for 10 minutes and then wash them, so that the impurities will be easily washed away. If the matsutake mushrooms are dirty, after soaking, you can also put the water clockwise stirring, so that the matsutake mushrooms stuck on the grass and leaves and other impurities will be washed away.

Submerge the matsutake mushrooms in rice water for ten minutes and then wash them again.

Matsutake mushrooms can be placed in the refrigerator, as long as it is relatively dry can be stored for a long time, remove the soil and weeds clean, keep dry portions into a plastic bag, placed in the refrigerator freezer layer to save.

Morphological Characteristics of Matsutake Mushroom

The substrate is medium to large. The cap is 5-10cm in diameter, flat hemispherical to nearly spreading, dirty white, with yellow-brown to chestnut-brown ambling filamentous scales, the surface is dry. Flesh white, thick.

The hyphae are white or slightly creamy yellow, dense, curved, unequal. Mycoparasites are thicker, 8-13.5cm long, 2-2.6cm thick, dirty white and powdery above the hyphae, chestnut-brown ciliate scales below the hyphae, solid, sometimes slightly expanded at the base. Mycorrhizal ring born in the upper part of the stipe, filamentous membrane, white above, below the same color with the stipe.