Fruiting Body Heterogeneity, Dimorphism and Haustorium-like Structure of <i>Naematelia aurantialba</i> (Jin Er Mushroom).

ABSTRACT: Mushroom Jin Er has attracted widespread attention in Asia over the past two decades due to its medicinal properties and nutritional values. In the present study, Jin Er basidiocarps were often found to be surrounded by Stereum hirsutum fruiting bodies in their natural habitat and occasionally in artificial cultivation. The observation of two different kinds of mycelia within the hymenium and analyses of ITS sequences confirmed that Jin Er basidiocarps were composed of two fungal species, Naematelia aurantialba and S. hirsutum. This heterogeneity of Jin Er fruiting bodies is indeed distinct from the homogeneous hypha of Tremella fuciformis found in Yin Er mushroom, although its development also requires the presence of another fungus Annulohypoxylon stygium</

SUBMITTER: Yang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11355420 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature