Hericium erinaceus

Hericium erinaceus (also called lion's mane mushroom, mountain-priest mushroom, bearded tooth fungus, and bearded hedgehog) is an edible mushroom belonging to the tooth fungus group.[1] Native to North America, Europe, and Asia, it can be identified by its long spines (longer than 1 centimetre or 1⁄2 inch), occurrence on hardwoods, and tendency to grow a single clump of dangling spines. The fruit bodies can be harvested for culinary use.

For the other species named hedgehog mushroom, see Hydnum repandum.

Hericium erinaceus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Hericiaceae
Genus: Hericium
Species:
H. erinaceus
Binomial name
Hericium erinaceus
(Bull.) Persoon (1797)
Synonyms
  • Hydnum erinaceus Bull. (1781)
  • Clavaria erinaceus
  • Dryodon erinaceus
Hericium erinaceus
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Teeth on hymenium
No distinct cap
Hymenium attachment is not applicable
Lacks a stipe
Spore print is white
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is choice

H. erinaceus can be mistaken for other species of Hericium, which grow across the same range. In the wild, these mushrooms are common during late summer and fall on hardwoods, particularly American beech and maple. Usually H. erinaceus is considered saprophytic, as it mostly feeds on dead trees.[2] It can also be found on living trees, so it may be a tree parasite. This could indicate an endophytic habitat.[2]

Description

The fruit bodies of H. erinaceus are large, irregular bulbous tubercules. They are 5–40 centimetres (2–15+1⁄2 inches) in diameter,[3] and are dominated by crowded, hanging, spore-producing spines, which are 1–5 cm (1⁄2–2 in) long or longer.[4][5]

The hyphal system is monomitic, amyloid, and composed of thin- to thick-walled hyphae that are approximately 3–15 μm (microns) wide. The hyphae also contain clamped septa and gloeoplerous elements (filled with oily, resinous substances), which can come into the hymenium as gloeocystidia.

The basidia are 25–40 µm long and 5–7 µm wide, contain four spores each and possess a basal clamp. The white amyloid spores measure approximately 5–7 µm in length and 4–5 µm in width. The spore shape is described as subglobose to short ellipsoid and the spore surface is smooth to finely roughened.[3][4]

Development

The fruit bodies of H. erinaceus are mainly produced annually from August to November in Europe.[6] It was observed that H. erinaceus could fruit intermittently for 20 years on the same dead tree. It is hypothesized that H. erinaceus can survive for 40 years.[3] The mating system of H. erinaceus species found in the U.S. was shown to be bifactorially heterothallic.[7]

The monokaryotic mycelium growth of H. erinaceus is slower than dikaryotic growth and only a relatively low percentage of monokaryotic cultures yield fruitbodies. Monokaryotic fruitbodies are also smaller than dikaryotic fruitbodies.[3] The monokaryotic mycelium was found to produce fusoid to subglobose chlamydospores of 6–8 x 8–10 µm size. These spores can stay viable for more than seven years and be stored under anaerobic conditions. Chlamydospore germination requires 30 to 52 hours, with a germination success rate of 32 to 54%.[7]

Spore production is highest at midday, relative to temperature increase and a decrease of relative humidity. Daily trends toward lower relative humidity can favor sporulation, however, levels of relative humidity that are too low do not favor high total spore production.[8]

Mycochemistry

H. erinaceus contains diverse phytochemicals, including polysaccharides, such as β-glucan, as well as hericenones and erinacines.[2] From its essential oil, 77 aroma and flavor compounds were identified, including hexadecanoic acid (26% of total oil composition), linoleic acid (13%), phenylacetaldehyde (9%) and benzaldehyde (3%), and other oils, such as 2-methyl-3-furanthiol, 2-ethylpyrazine and 2,6-diethylpyrazine.[9] Low concentrations of ergosterol are present.[2]

Similar species

Similar species include Hericium americanum and Hericium coralloides.[5]

Etymology

Both the Latin genus name Hericium and the species name erinaceus mean 'hedgehog' in Latin. This is also reflected by the German name, Igel-Stachelbart (literally, 'hedgehog goatee'), and some of its common English names, such as bearded hedgehog and hedgehog mushroom.[2]

It is known in Japan as yamabushitake (Kanji: 山伏茸, Katakana: ヤマブシタケ), in Chinese as hóutóugū (simplified Chinese: 猴头菇; traditional Chinese: 猴頭菇; Jyutping: hau4 tou4 gu1) meaning monkey head mushroom, and in Europe and the United States as lion's mane.[10]

Distribution and habitat

Hericium species can be found throughout the northern hemisphere.[2] H. erinaceus has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries. Its production is widespread within Asia, mostly using extensive production practices on wood logs or stumps.[2]

Despite its higher prevalence in Asia, H. erinaceus was first described scientifically in North America. Its production there occurs only on a small scale. Most of it is intensive indoor production with only a few small outdoor sites where log cultivation is practiced. Three Hericium species can be found in eastern North America, one being H. erinaceus, the other two H. americanum and H. coralloides.[11]

Although H. erinaceus is native to Europe, it has been red listed in 13 European countries due to poor germination and establishment. It is able to withstand cold temperatures and frost conditions.[12]

Ecology

Disease

Brennandania lambi (Acari: Pygmephoroidea) is a mite pest of fungi culture in China. This mite can develop and reproduce on the mycelium of H. erinaceus. Farm hygiene and heating treatments are the most important pest management strategies that should be followed to counter this acarus.[13]

Competition with other fungi

Hericium species are good competitors against other wood colonisers. They show the ability to maintain their place on dead wood, also when confronted with secondary colonizers such as Trametes versicolor and Stereum hirsutum.[3] Hericium erinaceus has shown to be slightly more competitive than other fungi tooth species, including Creolophus cirrhatus and Hericium coralloides.[14]

Conservation

H. erinaceus is scarce and threatened and is one of only four fungi to have the highest level of legal protection in the UK, making both picking and sale of the fungus illegal. It was added to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in 1998.[15]

Cultivation

In fungi cultivation, fungal strains are analogous to plant varieties in crop breeding.[11] Fungal strains comprise clonal descendants of a single isolation from one fungal colony in a pure culture.[16] Hericium spp. grow in the wild in North America, Europe, and Asia and, although there is considerable scientific research about them, they are not commonly industrially produced. Accordingly, there are few commercially available strains in the U.S. or Europe and little or no breeding for higher yield or other favorable traits has occurred.[11] Production trials in Egypt report yields of H. erinaceus averaging at 165g per 1 kg medium.[17]

Substrate requirements

As a saprophyte that occurs on dead wood, H. erinaceus requires adequate substrate factors, including suitable carbon and nitrogen sources, a certain pH value and ideal carbon/nitrogen ratio.[18][19]

Many different substrates have been used successfully for culitivation of this mushroom. Depending on the type of cultivation, the substrate can be either solid (artificial log) or liquid (submerged culture and deep submerged culture).

The solid substrate is most commonly a mixture of sawdust of hardwood or conifer containing different complements that may include wheat bran, wheat straw, soybean meal, corn meal, rice bran, and rice straw. For example, H. erinaceus strains grow on beech sawdust substrate enriched with wheat bran (20%), rye grain (25%), soybean meal (7%), rapeseed meal (10%), or meat-osseous flour (6%).[17]

An example of a liquid substrate composition can be glucose for the carbon source, soybean powder, corn powder, and wheat bran powder as a complex nitrogen source.[19] The pH values most suitable for the favorable growth of H. erinaceus were in the range of 5.0 - 9.0, with pH 6.0 as optimal.[20]

Climate requirements

Hericium erinaceus requires a humid environment for its growth: 85 to 90% of relative humidity in the air.[3] The incubation temperature most suitable for the mycelial growth of H. erinaceus was found to be 25 °C,[20] and the optimum temperature for vegetative growth was 26 °C.[20] H. erinaceus is unable to grow with a water potential lower than -5 Mpa.[12]

Techniques

The artificial cultivation of H. erinaceus was first reported in China in 1988. It is cultivated using artificial logs, bottles, and polypropylene bags. However, this type of artificial cultivation is not suitable for industrialized production due to its low yield and long cultivation cycles.[19]

Submerged culture is a type of artificial cultivation of H. erinaceus whereby the fungus is grown in a liquid medium. Using this method, a large number of mycelia can be obtained quickly.[19] Bioactive compounds can be sourced from the fruiting bodies, submerged-cultivated mycelial biomass, or liquid-cultivated broth. Growers optimize the culture medium composition to obtain simultaneously high yields of H. erinaceus mycelial biomass, exopolysaccharides, and polysaccharides. Submerged fermentation is preferable for the production of mycelial biomass and biologically active metabolites in order to produce a more uniform biomass and extract products.[21]

Growth regulators, such as 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and gibberellin, were observed to have an advantageous effect on spore germination.[22] Other technologies, such as red and green laser light of low intensity, stimulated spore germination as well as the vegetative growth of mycelium.[23] Argon and helium lasers also contributed to the acceleration of fruit body development by 36–51%.[3][24]

Wild strains

Wild strains of Hericium spp. can be isolated and cultivated by first gathering fruiting bodies from fallen trees in the natural habitat. The fruiting bodies can then be opened to attain pieces of their inner spore-producing tissue. This tissue is then placed onto petri dishes with agar to cultivate fungal colonies at 25 °C. After several transfers to new petri dishes to verify the purity of the strain, it can be kept at −80 °C for long-term storage.[25]

Uses

H. erinaceus produces edible fruiting bodies that have uses as food and in traditional medicine.[2] Hericenones and erinacines, isolated from the fruiting body and mycelium of H. erinaceus, respectively, are pharmacologically interesting compounds due to the observation of an enhancing effect on nerve growth factor synthesis in vitro.[26]

Culinary
Rock cod with grilled Hericium erinaceus

H. erinaceus is common in gourmet cooking.[11] Young specimens are considered the best.[27] Alongside shiitake (Lentinus edodes) and oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus) mushrooms, H. erinaceus is used as a specialty mushroom.[25][28] Its flavor may be compared to that of lobster.[11] The production of specialty mushrooms in the USA increased by about 23% between 2010 and 2018 from 7–9 million kg.[29]

H. erinaceus fruiting bodies contain 57% carbohydrates (8% as dietary fiber), 4% fat, and 22% protein.[30]

  • H. erinaceus on a tree
    H. erinaceus on a tree

See also

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