Polypore beveled (Inonotus obliquus) sary sy famaritana

Mowed polypore (Inonotus obliquus)

• Chaga
• birch mushroom

• Black birch mushroom;
• Innocent oblique;
• Pilate;
• Birch Mushroom;
• Black Birch Touchwood;
• Clinker Polypore.

The beveled tinder fungus (Inonotus obliquus) is a fungus of the Trutov family, belonging to the genus Inonotus (tinder fungus). The popular name is “black birch mushroom”.

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The fruit body of the beveled tinder fungus goes through several stages of development. At the first stage of growth, the beveled tinder fungus is an outgrowth on a tree trunk, with sizes from 5 to 20 (sometimes up to 30) cm. The shape of the outgrowth is irregular, hemispherical, having a black-brown or black surface, covered with cracks, tubercles and roughness. An interesting fact is that beveled tinder fungi grow only on living, developing trees, but on dead tree trunks, this fungus stops growing. From this moment begins the second stage of development of the fruiting body. On the opposite side of a dead tree trunk, a prostrate fruiting body begins to develop, which initially looks like a membranous and lobed fungus, having a width of no more than 30-40 cm and a length of up to 3 m. The hymenophore of this fungus is tubular, the edges of the fruiting body are characterized by brown-brown or wood color, tucked up. The tubes of the hymenophore during their growth are inclined at an angle of approximately 30 ºC. As it matures, the beveled tinder fungus destroys the bark of a dead tree, and after the mushroom pores are sprayed, the fruiting body becomes dark and gradually dries up.

Mushroom pulp in beveled tinder fungi is woody and very dense, characterized by a brownish or dark brown color. Whitish streaks are clearly visible on it, the pulp has no smell, but the taste when boiled is astringent, tart. Directly at the fruiting body, the pulp has a woody color and a small thickness, covered with skin. In ripe mushrooms it becomes dark.

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Throughout the fruiting season, the beveled tinder fungus parasitizes on birch wood, alder, willow, mountain ash, and aspen. It develops in the recesses and cracks of trees, parasitizing on them for many years, until the wood becomes rotten and crumbles. You can not meet this fungus often, and you can determine its presence in the first stages of development by sterile growths. The second stage of development of the beveled tinder fungus is characterized by the formation of fruiting bodies already on dead wood. This fungus provokes wood damage with white, core rot.

Edibility

The beveled tinder fungus, which grows on all trees except birch, cannot be eaten. The fruit bodies of the beveled tinder fungus, parasitizing on birch wood, have a healing effect. Traditional medicine offers chaga extract as an excellent remedy for the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (ulcers and gastritis), spleen, and liver. A decoction of chaga has a powerful preventive and curative property for cancer. In modern medicine, beveled tinder fungus is used as an analgesic and tonic. In pharmacies, you can even find chaga extracts, among which the most famous is Befungin.

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The beveled tinder fungus resembles sagging and outgrowths on birch trunks. They also have a rounded shape and a bark of a darker color.