It's called tree cancer for a living by sucking up sap, but it's regarded as the king of herbs abroad.

It is a fungus growing on birch trees, and it seems to be alarmist to say that it is "cancer of birch trees". In fact, it is worthy of the name. Although it is a well-known wild fungus, it is the culprit that absorbs the life of birch trees and finally leads to the death of birch trees. So it is not wrong to have such a nickname.

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A fungus that kills a tree is unheard of. It is called "birch antler" or "birch gall". It is a well-known fungus that Russians like to eat. In Japan, some people call it "birch antler", it has many nicknames, it is a medicinal fungus, shaped like a piece of black charcoal, mainly grown in China, Russia, Europe, Japan.

First of all, let's talk about why it is called "tree cancer". It grows in a very strange way, and it is a kind of plant vampire. It is born on a birch tree and constantly absorbs the sap of the birch tree. Its vitality is extremely strong and it is much more tenacious than ordinary parasitic bacteria.

Once it is rooted in a birch tree, it will absorb nutrients from the birch day and night for the next 15 years or so until the tree itself dies. This is just like human cancer, which destroys the normal cells of the human body and eventually leads to human death. It is a routine with cancer, which is why it is called birch cancer.

It grows in a nodule of birch like a tumor, growing up constantly, and finally becomes a black charcoal-like shape, although the birch misbehavior, resulting in death is hateful, in Russia, Europe and the United States and other places by the local people as a treasure, called it The King Of Herbs, translated as: the king of herbs.

It is widely known that birch gall is a natural hypoglycemic drug. Locals use slices of antler birch to drink in water, which smells similar to coffee. Some people crush it and grind it into powder, then boil it back and forth three times, finally leave the soup, keep it, drink it three times a day, or drink it directly as powder.

In addition to drug effects, scientific research has found that birch gall is excellent in fermented hyphae and other places, and has been added to a variety of foods as food processing, such as fermented noodles, food pigments, meat processing and so on.

Due to the growth characteristics of birch gall, it is almost impossible to carry out artificial culture, although after a lot of research, but rely on artificial domestication and cultivation is very rare, and can not be produced twice, almost all of them failed, but now the research and development, birch gall has made good achievements in various fields, although its birth is the death of birch, but still can not resist people's love for it.