Tea Tree Mushroom: Benefits and Effects, Cultivation Conditions, with August 2018 Price Market
Tea tree mushroom (Agrocybe aegerita) is an edible and medicinal fungus that people often use in soups to add umami. Its cap is tender, its stem crisp, its flavor pure and fragrant, and it is delicious and tasty. Because it grows wild on the dead trunks of oil tea trees, it is also named tea tree mushroom. The columnar Agrocybe is rich in nutrients and high in protein. So do you know the August 2018 tea tree mushroom price market? What are the benefits and effects of tea tree mushroom? And what are the cultivation conditions of tea tree mushroom?
I. August 2018 Tea Tree Mushroom Price Market
2018-08-07 Tea tree mushroom 18 yuan/kg Beijing Chaoyang District Dayanglu Agricultural and Sideline Products Wholesale Market
2018-08-07 Tea tree mushroom 7 yuan/kg Hohhot Dongwayao Wholesale Market
2018-08-07 Tea tree mushroom 12 yuan/kg Jiangsu Lingjiatang Agricultural and Sideline Products Wholesale Market
2018-08-07 Tea tree mushroom 16.8 yuan/kg Fujian Fuding Min-Zhe Border Agricultural Trade Center Market
2018-08-07 Tea tree mushroom 9.5 yuan/kg Wuhan Huangjingtang Wholesale Market
2018-08-07 Tea tree mushroom 60 yuan/kg Hubei Xishui City Chengbei Agricultural Products Wholesale Grand Market
II. Benefits and Effects of Tea Tree Mushroom
1. Anti-cancer and cancer-preventing: Tea tree mushroom contains a large amount of anti-cancer polysaccharides and has a good anti-cancer effect. People call it the “Chinese divine mushroom”, “health food”, and “anti-cancer vanguard”.
2. Anti-aging: It has the effects of tonifying the kidneys and nourishing yin, strengthening the spleen and stomach, improving human immunity, and enhancing the body's disease resistance. Regular consumption can play roles in anti-aging, beauty care, and more.
3. Relieving bedwetting in children: Tea tree mushroom has a unique therapeutic effect on frequent urination due to kidney deficiency, edema, and asthma, especially low-grade fever and bedwetting in children.
4. Eating tea tree mushroom together with pork bones or chicken has the effect of enhancing immunity.
III. Cultivation Conditions of Tea Tree Mushroom
1. Nutrition: Tea tree mushroom is a wood-rotting fungus with a relatively weak ability to decompose lignin and cellulose. Wild tea tree mushroom only grows on oil tea trees. After artificial domestication, broadleaf trees such as tung tree, maple, willow, oak, and white poplar can be used as cultivation materials, but miscellaneous sawdust with a looser texture and less tannin content is more suitable for the growth of tea tree mushroom. Bran, rice bran, cake fertilizer, and others can be fully used as nitrogen sources. In addition to miscellaneous sawdust, tea tree mushroom can also use sugarcane bagasse, rice straw, cottonseed hulls, and mushroom grass as carbon sources. Among carbon sources, mono- and disaccharides are the best, while the ability to use starch, cellulose, and others is weaker. If the cultivation material formula contains only glucose, the mycelium grows more loosely; when a small amount of sucrose is also added, the mycelium grows densely and vigorously. This indicates that mineral elements are relevant during mycelial growth.
2. Temperature: Tea tree mushroom is a medium-temperature edible fungus. On PDA medium at 26°C, spores germinate after 24 hours, and after 48 hours fine mycelium can be seen with the naked eye. The optimum temperature for mycelial growth is 23-28°C; growth stops above 34°C, and it can be preserved for 3 months at minus 4°C. The temperature range for fruiting body primordium differentiation is 12-26°C, with the optimum temperature being 18-24°C; lower or higher temperatures will delay primordium differentiation. When the temperature is lower, the fruiting body grows slowly, but the tissue is firm, the mushroom shape is larger, and the quality is good. When the temperature is higher, it easily opens its cap and forms long-stemmed mushrooms with thin caps.
3. Moisture: The water content of the culture medium for tea tree mushroom cultivation should be kept at 60%-65%, that is, grab a handful of culture medium and squeeze hard; it is appropriate if the spaces between the fingers are moist, with a little water but not dripping, and if the fingers open and it forms a clump, then disperses after falling to the ground. However, different types of sawdust and different degrees of coarseness vary slightly, so it should be controlled flexibly. During mycelial growth, the relative air humidity is required to be below 70%. The fruiting body formation and development period is 85%-95%, and it should be appropriately reduced during the growth period to extend the product's freshness retention period.
4. Air: Tea tree mushroom is an aerobic macrofungus and is very sensitive to carbon dioxide. Poor ventilation and excessively high carbon dioxide concentration easily cause slow mycelial growth, thick and long fruiting body stipes, small caps, early cap opening, and deformed mushrooms.
5. Light: Tea tree mushroom is a light-requiring fungus, and the fruiting body has phototropic growth characteristics. Appropriate diffused light is a necessary condition for completing its normal life cycle. During the mycelium cultivation period, it still grows under dark conditions, but does not form fruiting bodies. The fruiting body is not easy to differentiate without light, and the suitable light intensity is 50-300 lux.
6. pH: Tea tree mushroom mycelium prefers a weakly acidic environment, with the optimum pH 5.5-6.5. Below pH 4 or above 6.5, mycelial growth is sparse and slow.