What are the common varieties of wild Ganoderma lucidum? What is the method of identification?

Ganoderma lucidum is a precious traditional Chinese medicine. It is often used as a life-saving fairy grass in costume dramas. It always appears in places where it is difficult to pick. Indeed, the medicinal value of Ganoderma lucidum is very high, because wild ones are relatively rare, so artificial planting is relatively common, but planting requirements are also relatively high. Today, let's take a look at the common species of wild Ganoderma lucidum. What is the method of identification?

What are the common varieties of wild Ganoderma lucidum?

1. Ganoderma lucidum

Pinggai Ganoderma lucidum belongs to perennial Ganoderma lucidum. It has no stalk and is woody. The cap is semicircular, a bit like a kidney, and some of its shape is irregular.

2. Pine needle layer pore fungus

Pine needle layer pore fungus is also a perennial species, cork, no stalk, cover like a horseshoe, because it contains active substances such as perforate acid, so it has anti-cancer effect.

3. Tropical Ganoderma lucidum

Tropical Ganoderma lucidum is an annual variety of Ganoderma lucidum. It is stalked, corky, and the cap is like a kidney, but it is also semicircular and round.

4. Phaeophyllum

Phaeophyllum is a perennial variety of Ganoderma lucidum. It has no cover and lies on the surface of the attachment.

5. Chi Zhi

Belongs to the annual Ganoderma lucidum, has a cork stalk, the cap is also like the shape of the kidney, but also has a semicircle, the circle is relatively rare, and the growth period of the Ganoderma lucidum variety is relatively short.

2. Identification methods of wild Ganoderma lucidum and cultured Ganoderma lucidum.

1. Distinguish by color and shape

Most of the wild Ganoderma lucidum grows in deep mountain forests or rocky weeds, and its shape and color vary greatly due to different growth environments, while the cultivated Ganoderma lucidum is more uniform and roughly the same color.

2. Distinguish by size

There are many varieties of wild Ganoderma lucidum with different shapes and sizes, but the sizes of artificially planted Ganoderma lucidum are almost the same. And artificially cultivated Ganoderma lucidum grows in a better environment such as greenhouse, so it is much larger than wild Ganoderma lucidum, and its shape and color are more consistent.

3. See if there are any wormeyes

Wild Ganoderma lucidum will be eaten by insects more or less, so most of them will have insect eyes. Most of the cultivated Ganoderma lucidum will spray pesticides to get rid of insects, so there are almost no insect eyes.

4. Smell and taste

Wild Ganoderma lucidum has high medicinal value. Its taste is very bitter, as the saying goes, "good medicine tastes bitter, bitter medicine tastes good". The wild Ganoderma lucidum also has little smell, while the Ganoderma lucidum bought in the drugstore smells because it tastes with other medicinal herbs.

5. See if the grass stalks are twisted

The field is overgrown with weeds. Therefore, it is inevitable that grass stalks and Ganoderma lucidum are intertwined with each other, and even pass through Ganoderma lucidum.

6. Look at the mud of Ganoderma lucidum feet

Wild Ganoderma lucidum will be collected with soil. And most of the wild Ganoderma lucidum do not grow in the same place, so the mud they bring will be different, while the artificial ones are basically the same.