The difference between mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms

The mushroom cap is about 10 cm in diameter, and it is hemispherical with a slightly flat back. The colors are light brown and dark brown. There are about 36,000 species of mushrooms, which germinate from mature spores into hyphae. When the fruiting body is mature, it looks like an umbrella. Mushrooms mainly grow on fallen trees of broad-leaved trees, generally solitary, clustered and scattered, and mushrooms are distributed everywhere.

Mushroom is a general term for fungi, and Lentinus edodes is just a kind of mushroom, so mushrooms and Lentinus edodes are different. The biggest difference is that shiitake mushrooms are a kind of mushrooms.

Brief introduction of mushrooms

Mushroom is a kind of fungus, which likes humid environment. Generally grows in some grasslands and forests. There are many kinds of mushrooms. Some mushrooms are nutritious, but others can cause poisoning.

Introduction of Lentinus edodes

Lentinus edodes, the name of Chinese medicine, belongs to the fruiting body of mushroom, a fungus of Tricholoma. Distributed in southwest China and Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places, it has the functions of invigorating spleen, appetizing, resolving phlegm, regulating qi and detoxifying.

The difference between mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms

1, with different morphological characteristics.

Lentinus edodes: The mushroom cap is about 10 cm in diameter, hemispherical, slightly flat on the back, light brown and dark brown in color, with dark scales in the middle and flocculent scales at the edge. Mushroom meat is white, slightly thick or thick and fragrant.

Mushrooms: There are about 36,000 kinds of mushrooms, which germinate from mature spores into hyphae. The mycelium is white, slender, and cotton-like. It is closely piled together to form mycelium, which turns light brown after saprophytic and umbrella-shaped when mature.

2. Different growth habits

Mushrooms mainly grow on fallen trees of broad-leaved trees, and are generally solitary, clustered and scattered. Mushrooms have wide adaptability to the environment and are distributed everywhere, and are most abundant in forest deciduous areas.

3. Different nutritional values

Mushrooms can lower blood fat, cholesterol and blood pressure, because it contains magnesium oxide, chloramine, choline and purine, and also contains double-stranded RNA. Eating some properly can resist cancer and delay aging.

Eating some mushrooms properly can supplement the protein needed by the body, and the amount of vitamins is also very rich, which can play the role of eliminating toxins, allowing harmful substances in the body to be discharged in time, and can also achieve the functions of nourishing the spleen, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm.