How many kinds of mushrooms in Japan?

Hello, I have spent the winter break current home. I have very beautiful snow.

Well, as notice to the end of the previous article, this time I will introduce the types of mushroom in Japan. That's what mushrooms picked in Japan that I know much apparent in the supermarket. Do you think there is a mushroom is actually how much? It also describes how the generation of mushrooms.
It is said that so many kinds of mushrooms, and some kind 5000-6000 Japan alone. However, in about 2000 kinds of them, mushrooms have a name, when it comes to mushrooms to eat, there is only one tenth thereof.
Depending on how its bred, mushrooms are divided into three types. "Saprophytic mushroom" is a mushroom that absorb nutrients by decomposing such as fallen leaves and dead leaves. Saprophytic mushrooms might include shiitake and maitake. "Mushroom fungus guts" is a mushroom that grow on the roots of a mycelia living trees, are in harmony. Mushroom is not only you're the best, I'm giving moisture and inorganic nutrients to the tree he had also absorbed mushrooms. The best known is the matsutake mushroom fungus guts. Mushroom "parasitic" and the last one is a mushroom that absorb nutrients parasitic on plants and animals. In a parasitic mushroom is Cordyceps that is well-known that the parasitic insects, but also to herbal medicine.
Types of mushrooms can also be divided into two "child sac fungi" and "Basidiomycetes" in how to make spores. At the tip of the hyphae can basidium, spore sac-like elongated arm of a child, the basidiomycetes fungi sac child grows.
In addition, it is also divided in the form of mushrooms. Shape of the ball, such as the wrapper pattern shape, and umbrella, such as a button leaves were fluttering type bracket fungus that umbrella, such as a shelf without mushroom called with umbrella, and the handle is directly are obtained, as maitake has led such as those that look like jelly round, slimy, such as the shape of the mushroom is rich variation.
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So I explained that I caught mushroom in Japan.


Shiitake mushroom



Spring, It encountered Fagaceae Castanopsis dead tree, such as oak in autumn.

The surface of the umbrella is light brown or dark brown.
It is Japan's leading mushroom cultivation.

Ooicyoutake mushuroom

It happen on the ground in autumn forest, bamboo forest, and from summer park.It often occurs especially cedar.Surface is cream-colored umbrella at 7-25 cm.In a fresh state, the gloss is also wonderful taste beautifully.The stem is also a refreshing crisp scent is good.









Matsutake mushroom


This mushroom occurs pine forest in autumn.
It is a typical Japanese edible mushroom.
Popular high mushroom flavor, with aroma, crisp, crunchy is exceptional.







Shimeji sakura


Oak hardwood forest occurs in the fall, oak, and beech.
Center of the surface is the color of wine.
It is a good habit is crisp taste with no bitterness but there is some.








Sangoharitake


It happen to fall fallen hardwood.
This mushroom without umbrella and shape like coral branch grows  white Overall, it is 10-20 centimeters.
There is no habit, capitalize on a wide range of cuisine.






Oomurasaki chanterelle

Conifer forests occur on the ground from summer to autumn.
I am charged with a large and bright purple.
It is a very rare mushroom.








Pleurotus cornucopiae

It Yadamochi occur in the fall, such as fallen trees and stumps from early summer maple.
The umbrella is usually the central portion is recessed in the shape of a circular flat navel open 2-6 cm. Surface folds are slightly yellowish pale yellow.
The refreshing flavor without the habit. It is a good crisp elasticity and boiled out.






Maitake mushroom

It occur when the land of big trees, such as oak and Castanopsis species in autumn.
It is a fleshy mushrooms with a fan-shaped umbrella stems and branches.
Width becomes large share of as much as 30 centimeters.
Finding one that grows harder and smells are delicious.






Tamagotake

It happen to fall underplanting vertebral, oak, beech, and fir from the summer.
There is a groove around the umbrella line at 6-18 cm.
Mushroom crunchy texture is often without the habit.










Shirokikurage

It is a mushroom that grows on a tree or shiitake Hoda.
This mushroom that is known to have effects such as constipation and eliminate cholesterol-lowering effect.








Kuritake

Kuritake is delicious mushroom brown or red brown.
It have grown to such a large beech tree roots dead rhino.
Sulfur tuft (The color is pale yellow, sulfur yellow) there is a poisonous mushroom that resemble.
It is sulfur tuft there was a strong bitterness try chewing.









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There are many mushrooms that I have never eaten yet. I'll eat Tamagotake in the future!

Next week topics is "About mushrooms that Japanese people eat by preference."  Good bye!

Who ate a mushroom first?

Hellow everyone. My name is Misaki. I’m Japanese.

From now on, I will be written about report mushroom by this blog over ten weeks.

Why I will write a report, It is because I think that there is interesting in me no living thing as a mushroom if it is said about a mushroom.

Their ecosystem is wrapped in the mystery. And a variation is very rich.

The pictorial book which that I came to get interested in a mushroom read in the bookroom was a cause. The photograph of many mushrooms appeared there and it was very beautiful. Of course, I usual eat mushrooms in my life and I like mushrooms.

Now, the mushroom and others which we often eat usually does not have poison etc.

It is because it turns out that it is innocuous.

That is, -- far -- old ancestors -- " innocuous this mushroom moreover, it is delicious.” -- Since the definition was given, present-day we can eat in comfort.

Who on earth would eat a mushroom first in human beings?

The theme of the first memorable report -- “-- who ate a mushroom first?” -- It is.

It is supposed 13,000 years ago that it was least recently alike in the world, and a mushroom was eaten.

The trace regarded as having eaten a mushroom from the ruins of dust is discovered.

Moreover, China and the Roman Empire also have the record which was eating a mushroom.

Even the effect of a medicine of the mushroom was written in the oldest medicine book "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" in China.

In the "natural history magazine" which Pliny of the Roman Empire described, it is written in detail about the poisonous mushroom as cautions when eating a mushroom.

In Japan, the trace of ruins shows having been eaten in the middle of the Jomon period in B.C. 2000.

There is a trace of a mushroom also in the Heian period 1200 more years ago.

The Japanese poem of 31 syllables about matsutake appears in the Ten Thousand Leaves or the Kokin wakashu.

(Quotation from「キノコ大好き」http://www.zakki.jp/)

Had the mushroom adapted itself to people's gastronomic culture from ancient times!

A next topic is “How many kinds of mushrooms in Japan?”

To pleaser!