Abstract: The "golden ears" parasitic on mulberry trees, if you are lucky enough to encounter and bring home, are not as rare as Reishi mushrooms
Mulberry trees, which are a relatively common tree in the vast rural areas, although few people plant mulberry trees in the yard or in front of the house, but there are still many wild mulberry trees in the rural wilderness.
Don't look at the fact that the mulberry tree is not very valued now, but you still can't ignore the fact that it is a treasure all over its body. And if you have a business acumen, not to mention selling others, its leaves are also valuable.
The author has a friend, his child raised a few silkworms this year, and he has bought mulberry leaves online for these silkworm babies. Because of the high cost of preservation and express delivery, the mulberry leaves purchased online cost dozens of dollars at a time. We also joked with him, where is the silkworm breeding, it is simply raising a "gold-devouring beast".
In fact, this behavior of children is also understandable, in the past, we raised silkworms after 70 and 80, in order to pick mulberry leaves, we can also run a long way, and also climb trees to pick.
Of course, the value of the mulberry tree is not only these, its fruit mulberry has now become a rare fruit, even the leaves can be eaten as vegetables, can also be used to make tea. In addition, there are many treasures on the mulberry tree, among which there is a kind of "golden ear" parasitic on the mulberry tree, its rarity is not inferior to the Ganoderma lucidum, and the natural value is not cheap, have you encountered it?
What is the "golden ear" on the mulberry tree?
Because there were more people planting mulberry trees in the past, and there were many wild mulberry trees in the mountains, it is estimated that many people have seen this "golden ear" on the mulberry tree, and it is not an ordinary parasitic fungus, it is the famous mulberry yellow.
Mulberry yellow in the folk also known as mulberry parasitism, mulberry mushroom, mulberry, tree chicken, Hu sun eye, needle layer foramen fungus, etc., it is a kind of rusty fungus in the mulberry tree family Mulberry yellow fungus.
I believe that many people have heard of the name of Ganoderma lucidum, it is one of the four "immortal medicines" of the folk, and mulberry yellow looks somewhat similar to Ganoderma lucidum, and now its rarity is similar to Ganoderma lucidum, and it also has a precious medicinal value that cannot be ignored.
Many people have seen this kind of thing before, but they don't know it, let alone its value, so they often ignore it as an ordinary parasite, or directly destroy it. This is not surprising, after all, in the past, Sang Huang's fame was not high, and its value was not much valued in the folk.
I remember that when I was a child, there were dozens of wild mulberry trees in the back mountain, and I saw this "golden ear" on the mulberry tree at that time, and I picked it back out of curiosity. But the adults said that this thing was not a mushroom, nor was it a fungus, and that it could not be eaten, and they told us to throw it away.
Now it is a pity to think about it, and later the village developed the planting of orange trees and oil tea trees, and this piece of mulberry tree was cut down, and now I have not seen mulberry yellow for many years.
In fact, as a fungal plant, mulberry yellow has more stringent environmental requirements for growth, and generally only the right environment will grow out. At present, its distribution in China is concentrated in South China, North China and Southwest China, and if it is wild, it is mainly in some inaccessible deep mountains and old forests.
It is worth mentioning that not only will there be mulberry yellow on mulberry trees, but also on trees such as pine, poplar, willow, black birch and white birch, but their value is not as high as that of mulberry trees.
"Golden" medicinal fungus
Mulberry yellow is a fungus that can be medicated, and it also has high medicinal value. In fact, the history of mulberry yellow in the mainland is very long, as early as 2,000 years ago, the ancients have recognized its medicinal value, and also into the medicine.
This was recorded in the shennong materia medica, the first medicinal classic in ancient times: "Mulberry ear, good qi is not hungry, light body and strong mind." Raw Valley. "It can be seen that in the pre-Qin period, the ancients already used it into medicine."
In many later medical texts, there are also records of mulberry yellow, such as the famous "Compendium of Materia Medica" for mulberry yellow has a more detailed record: "mulberry parasitic (mulberry ear)." The names below the mulberry are all soft ears, and the names below the mulberry yellow are all hard ears, and their function is also the same. ”
In addition, in the "Materia Medica", "Shenghui Fang", "Qiqi Fang", "Hygiene And Simple Formula" and other prescriptions, there are all collections of methods of use of mulberry yellow and target diseases. In modern times, the Dictionary of Chinese Medicine and the Chinese Materia Medica also include mulberry yellow as a medicinal herb, and also record the composition, pharmacology and compound recipe of mulberry yellow in detail.
However, in recent years, due to the fact that the wild mulberry yellow is getting less and less, one is that it is originally very harsh on the growth environment, and the other is that the mulberry tree is not as much as before, and the environment has also changed, which is not conducive to the growth of mulberry yellow. Of course, it also has a lot to do with its rising price and excessive mining.
This also leads to the price of mulberry yellow continues to rise, at present, in the market, even the cheapest mulberry yellow, can also sell for five or six hundred yuan a pound, if it is high quality, it will be thousands of yuan a pound, and it is in short supply.
However, it should be noted that in recent years, with the deepening of the study of mulberry yellow, major breakthroughs have also been made in artificial cultivation. By extracting high-quality strains from wild mulberry yellow and then cultivating it on mulberry trees, you can artificially cultivate mulberry yellow, which is similar in shape to Ganoderma lucidum and has a golden yellow color, but the effect is naturally not as good as that of wild ones.
In addition, there is also a point to pay attention to, in recent years on the market there have also been some counterfeit mulberry yellow, that is, grown in poplar trees, or willow trees, although it looks very similar to mulberry yellow, but the shape is not so regular, the color is not golden, and most of them are gray-black, and smell strange, of course, its medicinal value should also be greatly discounted, if you buy or be cautious.
Well, today I will share it with you here, after reading the article, remember to give a thumbs up, if you think it is valuable, you can also forward and share. Have you ever seen wild mulberry yellow? Later, when you see this "golden ear" on the mulberry tree, remember to pick it home, its rarity and value are not lost to the Reishi mushroom!