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Ganoderma belongs to the Polyporaceae group of the Fungi family, Reishi
and some formulas contain other mushrooms.
They can be differentiated from other polypores because they have a
double walled basidiospore. The genus is divided into two sections -
Section Ganoderma has a shiny cap surface (like Ganoderma lucidum) and
Elfvingia has a dull cap surface, like Ganoderma applanatum. |
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Reishi, Ling Zhi (Ganoderma lucidum) |
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Ganoderma lucidum is a popular medicinal mushroom that has been used
as a home remedy for the general promotion of health and longevity in
East Asia. Ganoderma
Lucidum occurs in six different colors, but the red variety is most
commonly used and commercially cultivated in
North America, China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.
Growing alone or in groups on decaying hardwood logs and stumps (rarely
on conifers); annual; widely distributed. Season all year. |
Description:
Cap: 2-20 cm; at first irregularly knobby or elongated, but by
maturity more or less fan-shaped; with a shiny, varnished surface often
roughly arranged into lumpy "zones"; red to reddish brown when mature;
when young often with zones of bright yellow and white toward the
margin.
Pore Surface: White, becoming dingy brownish in age; usually bruising
brown; 4-7 tiny (nearly invisible to the naked eye) circular pores per
mm; tubes to 2 cm deep.
Stem: Sometimes absent, but more commonly present; 3-14 cm long; up
to 3 cm thick; twisted; equal or irregular; varnished and colored like
the cap; often distinctively angled away from one side of the cap.
Flesh: Brownish; fairly soft when young, but soon tough. Spore Print:
Brown. |
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