Young fruit body oval, dark brown to gray and protected envelope.In the adult mushroom fruiting bodies, hoods develop like the cup dark brown with greyish-brown stems. Mushroom is sold for consumption purposes is the fruit body of a young hood who still undeveloped.
Cultivated mushroom in the building called kumbung. As the name implies these fungi grow well on medium straw and hay that has been composted. However, further cultivation practices also found that these fungi grow well in compost waste paper, oil palm empty fruit bunches, compost and compost banana stem bio-mass in general. According to research, waste cotton is a medium that gives the best production and the growth of mushroom. Mushroom mushroom known as the warm, alive and able to withstand relatively high temperatures, between 30-38 ° C with optimum temperature at 35 ° C.
Mushroom cultivation is not difficult. Harvesting is done on the fruiting bodies that were not fully developed (the bud), although the body of the fruit that had opened his umbrella and still can be consumed even though the selling harnga decreased.
Mushroom has a delicious flavor, savory, and not easily change its form if it is cooked, so it is used for a variety of dishes, like chicken noodle mushrooms, sauteed mushrooms, Pepes mushrooms, soup and capcay.
Mushroom production centers in Indonesia are in the Dieng Plateau. In Asian countries it is grown, mushroom sold in fresh form. In cool temperate regions only available canned mushroom.
Protein content of mushrooms is quite high, in 100 g fresh mushrooms contained about 3.2 grams of protein, this number will increase to 16 g if the fungus is in the dry state. In addition, fungi also contain relatively high calcium and phosphorus, 51 mg and 223 mg, and contains 105 calories kj, with low fat content, 0.9 gr.
Selection of mushroom spores and mycelium appropriate, will produce a giant mushroom / jumbo (larger than the other Mushroom), such as those generated by SP and Soesiadi susi Erlita of Ds Jatiroto, Lumajang, East Java.
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