Volvariella volvacea, Chinese herbal medicine name. This product is the fruiting body of Volvariella volvacea. Latin plant name: voluariella volvacea (bull. ex fr.) sing. [voluaria volvacea (bull.) quel. ; Agaricus volvaceus Bull.] harvesting and storage: when the egg-shaped mushroom cap is exposed, it can be harvested before it breaks, cut in half, and dried or dried for later use. Function indications are: clearing away heat and relieving summer heat; Tonifying qi and blood; Reduce blood pressure. Main heat and thirst; Physically weak; Dizziness and fatigue; High blood pressure.

Chinese name

straw mushroom

Chinese name

Cao Gu

another name

Straw mushroom, orchid mushroom, stalk mushroom, hemp mushroom, domestic mushroom, South China mushroom, grass mushroom, delicious bud and foot mushroom.

source

This product is the fruiting body of Volvariella volvacea. Latin plant name: voluariella volvacea (bull. ex fr.) sing. [voluaria volvacea (bull.) quel. ; Agaricus volvaceus Bull.] harvesting and storage: when the egg-shaped mushroom cap is exposed, it can be harvested before it breaks, cut in half, and dried or dried for later use.

Tropism of nature and taste

Gan; Cold nature.

Functional indication

Clearing heat and relieving summer heat; Tonifying qi and blood; Reduce blood pressure. Main heat and thirst; Physically weak; Dizziness and fatigue; High blood pressure.

morphological character

The width of the cap is 5- 19cm. Nearly bell-shaped; After stretching, the middle part is slightly convex, the surface is dry, gray to grayish brown, and the middle part is dark with radial stripes. Mushroom meat is white, soft and slightly thicker in the middle. The bacterial fold turns pink after white, slightly dense and wide; Separated from life, not equal in length. The stipe is nearly cylindrical, 5- 18cm long and 0.8- 1.5cm thick, white or slightly yellowish, smooth and solid. Volva is large, bract-shaped, thick, dirty white to grayish black. Spores are pink. Spores are smooth and oval, (6-8.4) μ m× (4-5.6) μ m.. The fringed saccular body is clavate, with a sharp tip or near the tail tip, and (95-100) μ m× (16-35) μ m.

distribution area

Distribution of resources: Fujian, Taiwan Province, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet and other places.

growing environment

Ecological environment: Born on straw and other haystacks. Most of them are cultivated artificially in summer and autumn.

life habit

Volvariella volvacea is a high-temperature saprophytic fungus, its growth and cultivation temperature range is 10-44℃, and the relative temperature is required to be 80%-95%. It belongs to aerobic fungi, and the appropriate pH is 6-7.5.