After walking for a while, Wang Xiaoshan walked under a tree. He found that there were many red fruits near the big tree. After a closer look, the afternoon's mountain goods were already there.
"I didn't encounter any good mountain products along the way just now. It's just noon now. Let's eat first, and we will continue after eating."
[In the past, Lao Wang was always sure when he picked mountain goods. Today, he picked nothing in several places. It seems that luck does not happen every day!]
[Are you trying to save your luck? If you save enough, it will explode into a big one.]
After Wang Xiaoshan finished speaking, he started to make lunch. Some time ago, he had rice every day, but now he brings only noodles. Today, he brings self-heating noodles with dried mushrooms and bamboo shoots.
He spent a lot of energy in the morning, just competing with the villagers picking mushrooms. As a result, Wang Xiaoshan ate a lot at noon. After finishing the noodles, he ate beef jerky under the tree.
After eating and drinking, Wang Xiaoshan walked around the tree. He found that there were edible mountain products on and under the tree. This situation is relatively rare.
"Viewers in the live broadcast room, come and see what this is!"
Wang Xiaoshan picked up a red fruit on the ground and showed it to everyone in front of the camera.
【Isn’t this a chestnut?】
[A bit stunted, why are you so small? The chestnuts I usually eat are much bigger than this.]
[Is there much meat inside such a small chestnut? It shouldn’t be as good as artificially grown chestnuts.]
This time Wang Xiaoshan encountered a wild chestnut tree, and the red fruits on the ground were all wild chestnuts.
In the words of Grandpa Wang Xiaoshan, wild chestnut was a life-saving food in those days. In the era when food was scarce, in addition to wild vegetables, wild chestnut also saved many people.
Although the chestnuts produced by wild chestnut trees are relatively small, the yield is high, and it is not a problem to pick up hundreds of kilograms a day.
However, wild chestnuts all grow on trees that are more than several decades old, and the trees are very tall. Generally, you need to use a long bamboo pole to knock them down, or go to the tree and shake the chestnuts off.
"Artificially cultivated chestnuts are very large, while wild chestnuts are smaller. Wild chestnuts are only half the size of artificially cultivated chestnuts."
"Although wild chestnuts are small, they taste quite good. They are sweeter, crisper and more flavorful than artificially grown ones. However, we are not harvesting chestnuts now."
"Let me show you a mushroom that grows under chestnut trees. It used to be very unpopular with farmers, but now it is a valuable edible fungus. I wonder if you are familiar with it."
Wang Xiaoshan turned the camera towards the past.
It looks like a coral, with overlapping branches forming clusters. It looks very beautiful, just like a blooming flower, except that this flower has layers of petals and is gray in color.
[Coral mushroom, chestnut mushroom, chestnut mushroom, flower mushroom, I think there must be one correct answer among so many answers.]
[Look at the pictures and let’s talk, the person upstairs is really good at editing, even chestnut mushrooms!]
【Why aren’t expensive people still popular?】
[80% of them cause damage to chestnut trees, and most of them are not welcome in rural areas because of this reason!]
"Most of the names everyone guessed are correct. This mushroom is called Maitake mushroom or Maitake mushroom. In many places, it is called Chestnut mushroom or Chestnut mushroom. Most of the names are related to chestnut."
"This kind of mushroom is a wood-rotting fungus that mainly grows at the roots of chestnut trees. The woody part of the chestnut tree is the source of nutrition for Maitake. In fact, one Grifola frondosa does not have a great impact on the tree."
"But if the number is particularly large, it will cause the chestnut tree to rot, which will at least reduce the yield of the chestnut tree, and in serious cases will cause it to die."
"Compared with other parasitic fungi that live on trees and absorb nutrients, wood-rot fungi are a drain on trees, so farmers hate them."
In the past, if any villagers saw this kind of Grifola Grifola on the mountain, they would immediately trample it to pieces. People didn’t know the value of Grifola Grifola in the past, but chestnuts are different. They can be eaten and sold for money.
Therefore, this kind of mushroom that harms chestnut trees is very disliked by people, and there are very few people who eat this kind of mushroom. At one time, the number of Grifola frondosa was extremely small.
[This kind of mushroom is a little disgusting, it’s basically a plant vampire!]
[It is simply a wood killer, no one likes this kind of mushroom!]
[Fortunately, it has become a precious edible fungus now, otherwise it will be extinct sooner or later.]
[Mushrooms absorb the nutrients from the tree, so we absorb the nutrients from the mushrooms and eat them all!]
"I picked all these Grifola flowers first to stop them absorbing nutrients from the trees and let the chestnut trees live a few more years!"
After saying this, Wang Xiaoshan carried the basket and started picking. There were many mushrooms under this wild chestnut tree. He counted 10 mushrooms in total and surrounded the tree. How cruel.
To pick Grifola Grifola, just put your hands flat and insert them into the bottom of the Grifola Grifola, and then tilt it to one side with force at the same time to break the root, and then you will pick a Grifola Grifola.
If the mycorrhizae are not damaged, Grifola Grifola will grow several times over a period of time. Similar to morels, once the mycorrhizae are damaged, new Grifola Grifola will not grow in this place.
Grifola frondosa grows like a flower, so it should not be piled too high when packing. If there is no backlog easily, Wang Xiaoshan had to take out all the mushrooms he picked before in the basket.
First, put all the hard-to-install Grifola Grifola flowers in, and then insert pins into the gaps and put other mushrooms into the gaps, so that you can install more mushrooms.
Mushrooms like Jianshouqing can be temporarily put in the backpack.
Afterwards, Wang Xiaoshan picked all the Grifola flowers from another wild chestnut tree nearby. A total of 17 flowers were picked from the two trees.
"After harvesting, there are still a lot of Maitake flowers under the two chestnut trees. Although this mushroom can cause the death of chestnut trees, it is still very nutritious."
"Maitake flowers contain 18 kinds of amino acids needed by the human body, and also contain a variety of beneficial minerals, such as potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, zinc, etc., and the vitamin content is also higher than that of ordinary edible fungi."
"It also contains a variety of organic acids, which can promote the healthy physical and intellectual development of children, and has anti-cancer, anti-hypertensive, anti-obesity, lowering blood sugar and other effects."
[I just checked, and in some places abroad, this is called the king of anti-cancer.]
[It really turned around and became a popular existence immediately!]
[The value is quite high, but they are not sold in supermarkets and markets!]
[I’ve seen it done online, but it looks a bit ugly!]
[The Maitake flowers sold in the market are all dried. I have eaten them and the stewed soup is very delicious.]
"Fresh Grifola flowers are difficult to transport. They are usually dried because they grow like flowers. If they are not handled properly, they will become dregs. If you want to eat fresh ones, you may have to pick them yourself."
"Nowadays, this kind of mushroom can also be cultivated artificially. It should be relatively easy to buy. You can search online. There are many ways to eat it. You can stew meat, make soup, and stir-fry meat. It tastes very delicious."