Tea Tree Mushroom
Fecal rust umbrella family field head mushroom genus of edible and medicinal mushrooms. Its fruiting entities solitary, twin or clustered, cap diameter 5~10cm; surface smooth, the first dark reddish brown, with shallow wrinkles, flesh white, with fibrous stripes; stipe attached to the dark pale mucus, mycorrhizal ring remains in the stipe or attached to the edge of the cap automatically fall off; the inner surface is often full of spores and is embroidered brown spores oval, spores ovate to ellipsoid.
The Tea Tree Mushroom belongs to the same species as the Poplar Mushroom, the Columnar Field Mushroom, the Columnar Ring Rust Umbrella, the Willow Mushroom, the Willow Ring Mushroom (in Guizhou and Yunnan), and the Willow Matsutake Mushroom (in Japan and Taiwan Province of China). However, Poplar Mushroom, Columnar Field Head Mushroom, Columnar Ring Rust Umbrella, Willow Mushroom, Willow Ring Fungus (Guizhou, Yunnan), Willow Matsutake Mushroom (Japan and Taiwan Province of China), etc., and the Tea Tree Mushroom have a big difference in the morphology and quality, and the Tea Tree Mushroom is obviously superior to the Poplar Mushroom in terms of flavor, aroma, food and medicinal value and economic value, etc.