On October 13, the COP15 Conference was held in Kunming. Hundreds of kilometers away, Liu Jianwei, a doctoral student in fungal research at the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, rushed to Kunming with a "treasure" found in the Ailao Mountain in Jingdong. This "baby" is an aromatic ghost fungus, which was last discovered by researchers in 1985. For 36 years, everyone has only seen its black-and-white stick figures in the literature, and never thought that they could see its real body with their own eyes.
"Be sure to protect it and bring it back for isolation so we can preserve the live strain." Yang Zhuliang, a researcher at the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a doctoral supervisor known as "Mr. Mushroom", repeatedly explained to Liu Jianwei, and it was difficult to hide his excitement.
When the "Utilization and Sustainable Development of Biological Resources" cloud interview was connected outside the venue, the Reporters of the Spring City Evening News-Kaiping News followed Yang Zhuliang and were excited to see this rare fungus.
Photo by Liu Jianwei
Yang Zhuliang introduced that July and August every year is the best season for field research on mushrooms, and this year it was postponed to October, and I did not expect that there were "late surprises". Not only were many fungi not previously collected, but also aromatic ghost fungus was found. "The aromatic ghost pen fungus is a new species published in 1985 by the late mycologist Researcher Zang Mu, and there is a black and white line diagram of the fungus in the article. There are very few phalloids with aromatic pen fungus, and it has the prospect of development and utilization. ”
When it comes to ghost pen fungus, the most familiar one is bamboo thorn. This type of fungus generally has a bad smell, and when eating bamboo, you must cut off the parts that produce the bad smell. However, the aromatic ghost fungus does not have a bad smell, it has an aromatic smell.
The site of the discovery of the aromatic ghost pen fungus was in the mountain forest of 2000 to 3000 meters above sea level in Ailao Mountain. From the video, the reporter saw that the fungus was longer than the palm of the hand, about the thickness of the common zucchini, and the cap was in a network structure. After the researchers bring the live strains back to the laboratory for strain isolation, they can carry out artificial cultivation experiments. "Maybe we can cultivate a fragrant bamboo thorn, which will become a favorite edible mushroom."
Yang Zhuliang introduced that the field trip found more than 300 new specimens, and also found aromatic ghost pen fungus, which objectively confirmed the improvement of the ecological environment in Yunnan, because the ecology is not good, it will not grow fungi.
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