Agrocybe aegerita
| Agrocybe aegerita | |
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| Agrocybe aegerita growing on a poplar stump in Girona, Spain | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Basidiomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Strophariaceae |
| Genus: | Agrocybe |
| Species: | A. aegerita |
| Binomial name | |
| Agrocybe aegerita (V. Brig.) Singer | |
Agrocybe aegerita, also called Agrocybe cylindracea or Pholiota aegerita,[1] is a mushroom in the genus Agrocybe which is commonly known as the poplar mushroom[1] or velvet pioppini (Chinese: 茶树菇). In Japan, it is called Yanagi-matsutake (Japanese:柳松茸).[2]
It belongs to the white rot fungi and is a medium-sized agaric having a very open and convex cap, almost flat, with a diameter of 3–10 centimetres (1.2–3.9 in). Underneath, it has numerous whitish radial plates adherent to the foot, later turning to a brownish-grey colour, and light elliptic spores of 8–11 by 5–7 micrometres. The white fibre foot is generally curved, having a membranous ring on the top part which promptly turns to tobacco colour due to the falling spores.[1] When very young, its colour may be reddish-brown and later turn to a light brown colour, more ochre towards the centre and whiter around its border. It grows in tufts on logs and holes in the poplars, and other trees of large leaves.[1]
It is cultivated and sold in the United States,Chile, Japan, Korea, Australia and China. It is an important valuable source possessing varieties of bioactive secondary metabolites, such as indole derivatives with free radical scavenging activity, cylindan with anticancer activity and agrocybenine with anti-fungal activity.[3] In Traditional Chinese Medicine, it is often used as a diuretic.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Mariano García Rollán, Cultivo de setas y trufas, pg. 167, MUNDI-PRENSA (2007), ISBN 84-8476-316-1 (Spanish)
- ↑ ヤマギマツタケ（柳松茸）：特徴と主な産地や旬の時期
- ↑ Jian-Jiang Zhong, Feng-Wu Bai, Wei Zhang, Biotechnology in China I: From Bioreaction to Bioseparation and Bioremediation, vol. 1, pag. 102, Springer (2009), ISBN 3-540-88414-9
- ↑ Ying, J.Z., Mao, X.L., Ma, Q.M., Zong, Y.C. and Wen, H.A. 1987. Icons of Medicinal Fungi from China (Transl. Xu, Y.H.), Science Press, Beijing.