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  2. Ganoderma applanatum - Wikipedia

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    Ganoderma applanatum is parasitic and saprophytic, [2] and grows as a mycelium within the wood of living and dead trees. It grows in single, scattered, or compound formations. [ 2 ] It forms fruiting bodies that are 3–30 centimetres (1–12 inches) wide, 5–50 cm (2– 19 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and 1–10 cm ( 1 ⁄ 2 –4 in) thick, [ 1 ] hard ...

  3. Ganoderma - Wikipedia

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    Ganoderma is a genus of polypore fungi in the family Ganodermataceae that includes about 80 species, many from tropical regions. [1] They have a high genetic diversity and are used in traditional Asian medicines. Ganoderma can be differentiated from other polypores because they have a double-walled basidiospore.

  4. Ganoderma zonatum - Wikipedia

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    Ganoderma zonatum is a plant pathogen that infects the palm species causing butt rot. It is a fungus that infects the bottom 122–152 centimeters (4–5 feet) of the plant also rotting the roots . It has been known to be in both natural and planted environments and in the majority of cases only in palms.

  5. Ganoderma oregonense - Wikipedia

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    Ganoderma oregonense (also known as the west-coast reishi, western varnished conk, lacquer fungus, and/or American ling-chi) is a species of bracket fungus that causes root and butt white rot in conifers in northwestern coastal North America.

  6. Lingzhi (mushroom) - Wikipedia

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    Lingzhi, Ganoderma sichuanense, also known as reishi or Ganoderma lingzhi [3] is a polypore fungus ("bracket fungus") native to East Asia belonging to the genus Ganoderma. Its reddish brown, varnished, kidney-shaped cap with bands and peripherally inserted stem give it a distinct fan-like appearance. When fresh, the lingzhi is soft, cork-like ...

  7. Butt rot - Wikipedia

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    Butt rot is a disease of plants, mostly trees, caused by fungi. The fungus attacks the moist, poorly protected undersurface of tree trunk's thickest part (the "butt" above the root, as opposed to "top"), where the end of the stem makes contact with the soil. It may affect the roots as well, causing a disease known as root rot. It then moves up ...

  8. Ganoderma tsugae - Wikipedia

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    Like G. lucidum, G. tsugae is purported to have medicinal properties including use for dressing a skin wound. [4] Though phylogenetic analysis has begun to better differentiate between many closely related species of Ganoderma; [5] there is still disagreement as to which have the most medicinal properties.

  9. Ganoderma sessile - Wikipedia

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    Ganoderma sessile is a species of polypore fungus in the Ganodermataceae family. There is taxonomic uncertainty with this fungus since its circumscription in 1902. This wood decay fungus is found commonly in Eastern North America, and is associated with declining or dead hardwoods.