Ganoderma Mushrooms || Fungifriday

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Hello mushroom lovers!,
Mushrooms are a type of delicious food. Not only for food servings, but mushrooms can also be processed into the main ingredients of herbal medicine. Because it is believed that mushrooms can help certain health conditions. As you can see, This fungus grows on dead wood. The mushroom is fan-shaped, has white and yellow colors. Nowadays many health products come from mushroom raw materials. In Southeast Asia this mushroom has a different name. In China it is called lingzhi and in Japan it is called reishi. While the mushroom has the name biology namely ganoderma.

Ganoderma are characterized by basidiocarps that are large, perennial, woody brackets also called "conks". They are lignicolous and leathery either with or without a stem. The fruit bodies typically grow in a fan-like or hoof-like form on the trunks of living or dead trees. They have double-walled, truncate spores with yellow to brown ornamented inner layers.
source:wikipedia.org.

Ganoderma mushrooms are widely grown and attached to trees in the Asian region. This mushroom is not wide but has thickness. This type of fungus is a cosmopolitan genus, why? Because it can be found everywhere, in living trees as well as on wooden stumps, even when doing exploring the forest can also be found. Ganoderma mushrooms have 39 species that have been identified.