Good evening Hive friends wherever you are, best wishes to all of you. On this occasion I would like to share with all of my friends, namely Mushroom seekers who are waiting for the rain to come.
The rainy season is a blessing for the residents of Serdang Village, Toboali sub-district, South Bangka district, Bangka Belitung Islands province. They go to the forest to look for toadstools (mushrooms), especially mushrooms that grow around the pelawan tree. The population of Serdang Village, which amounts to 4,057 people, the majority of the people work as rice, pepper, and rubber gardeners. Some have also started oil palm plantations. When the mushroom season has arrived, almost all residents are willing to leave their gardens and fields to turn into mushroom hunters.
A fire ant approaches the scale mushroom
The appearance of the fire ant [Solenopsis] is also an indicator of whether or not the fungus is growing. If there are a lot of fire ant nests in the location, then there must be a lot of mushrooms too. Because the ants like to be near the mushrooms. So, the villagers have to be extra careful, otherwise they will get painful bites when looking for mushrooms.
Forests are decreasing, mushrooms are decreasing.
To get to the location of the fungus must pass through shrubs and shrubs.
The potential for mushrooms in Serdang Village is indeed more than other areas. This is because, Serdang is one of the villages that is free from mining activities, so the forest is still maintained. However, there is one type of mushroom that is starting to be difficult to find in Serdang Village, namely the egg fungus which belongs to the Agaricaceae family.
"Our village is free from tin mining, but we have started to have oil palm plantations. Luckily, the fighting fungus and scales still grow even in an open forest area [shrub] like this," said one resident of Serdang Village.
The fungus commonly found by Serdang residents is a type of scale or bulkhead fungus that belongs to the Chanterellus family, a type that is in symbiosis with certain trees, especially in open forest areas [shrubs] around the pelawan trees. Its main characteristics are brown and scaly patterns found on mushroom caps. In addition to scale mushrooms, in the forest of Serdang Village there is also a fighting fungus (Boletus sp), a fungus that grows in symbiosis to form ectimocorrhiza with a red-fighting tree (Tristaniopsis sp), so the color is red. Before consumption, the mushroom must be boiled first or dried. The goal is that the poison mucus is lost and if it is wet, it contains poison. If the forest is reduced, it certainly threatens the growth of mushrooms which have been the source of the economy for the people of Serdang Village for generations.
Sutarmi [30], Mushroom seeker who has to break through the bushes to get mushrooms
Mushrooms are being sorted and don't let any poisonous mushrooms
A resident drying the resistance mushrooms in his yard in Serdang Village.
Camera Redmi Note 9 Pro Location Forest Serdang Village Category Photography Black and White Process Mobile Lightroom