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Northwest Yunnan fungal species
Chicken fir
Collybia albuminosa
（Collybia albuminosa）
Chicken fir [zōng] also known as chicken Zong, chicken pine, chicken foot mushroom, ant fir, etc., is a delicious mountain treasure, called the king of fungi, its meat is fat and strong, fine white, sweet and crisp, fragrant and delicious, comparable to chicken meat, so the name of chicken fir.
It contains calcium, phosphorus, iron, protein and other nutrients. There are many ways to eat chicken fir, raw and cooked stir-frying as a soup, and the taste is extremely delicious.
Fruiting bodies are medium to large. The cap is 3–23.5 cm wide, conical to bell-shaped and gradually extended at a young age, with a significant bulge at the top that is bucket-shaped, grayish-brown or brown to light earth-yellow, radially cracked after age, and sometimes the edges are upturned. The flesh is white and thicker.
The fungal folds are white to opalescent, yellowish after the elders, curved or nearly off-born, dense, narrow, unequal, and wavy at the edges. The stalk is thick, 3–15 cm long, 0.7–2.4 cm thick, white or the same cover color, solid, basally expanded with a brown to blackish brown slender pseudoroid, up to 40 cm long.
Editor: Lijiang Environmental Education Center
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