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Lingzhi, also known as reishi from its Japanese pronunciation, is the ancient "mushroom of immortality", revered for over 2,000 years (with some evidence suggesting use in Neolithic China 6,800 years ago). [8] However, as of 2023 there is an ongoing debate on which one of the described Ganoderma species is the true lingzhi mushroom.
These plants can be used to signal hunters of the mushrooms, both human and animal, to the location of the fungus’ underground mycelia. Additionally, insects are also known to target these mushrooms as food and a place to lay their eggs, limiting the amount of the mushrooms that can be harvested by human gatherers.
Flammulina filiformis, commonly called enoki mushroom, is a species of edible agaric (gilled mushroom) in the family Physalacriaceae. It is widely cultivated in East Asia, and well known for its role in Japanese and Chinese cuisine .
Japanese popular mushrooms, clockwise from left, enokitake, buna-shimeji, bunapi-shimeji, king oyster mushroom and shiitake (front). Lyophyllum shimeji Bunapi (developed by Hokuto Corporation) Shimeji (Japanese: シメジ, 占地 or 湿地) is a group of edible mushrooms native to East Asia, but also found in northern Europe. [1]
The mushroom's Japanese name shiitake is a compound word composed of shii (椎, Castanopsis), for the tree Castanopsis cuspidata that provides the dead logs on which it is typically cultivated, and take (茸, "mushroom"). [5] The specific epithet edodes is the Latin word for "edible". [6]
Medicinal mushroom polypores in use today are Ganoderma lucidum coll. (reishi or lingzhi), [34] Trametes versicolor (turkey tail) and Ganoderma applanatum (Japanese Kofuki-saru-no-koshikake). Beyond their traditional use in herbal medicine , contemporary research has suggested many applications of polypores for the treatment of illnesses ...
Agaricus subrufescens (syn. Agaricus blazei, Agaricus brasiliensis or Agaricus rufotegulis) is a species of mushroom, commonly known as almond mushroom, almond agaricus, mushroom of the sun, God's mushroom, mushroom of life, royal sun agaricus, jisongrong, or himematsutake (Chinese: 姬松茸, Japanese: 姫まつたけ, "princess matsutake").
The Japanese name メシマコブ is composed of メシマ, an island of Gotō, Nagasaki, where this mushroom used to grow, and コブ, which means bump, referring to the mushroom's appearance. Per Wu et al. (2012) citing Ito (1955) and Imazeki and Hongo (1989), this is a mushroom that is always said to be on mulberry trees.