Reishi or Ling Zhi (Ganoderma lucidum)
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In Latin, lucidum means shiny or brilliant and aptly describes this mushroom’s fruiting body, which has a modeled, sculptured, varnished appearance. The Chinese and Koreans know it as Ling Zhi (mushroom of herb and immortality), whereas the Japanese call this mushroom reishi or mannentake (10,000 year mushroom). The virtues of G. lucidum extracts, handed down from generation to generation, include it as a ‘‘cancer cure’’ and a symbol of happy augury, good fortune, good health, longevity, and even immortality. Beginning with the Yuan Dynasty (1280–1368 A.D.), G. lucidum has been endlessly represented in art—in paintings, carvings of jade and deer’s antlers, furniture and carpet designs, balustrades, jewelry, women’s hair combs, perfume bottles—in short, wherever an artistic urge found an outlet. The earliest mention of Ling Zhi was in the era of the first emperor of China, Shinghuang of the Ch’in Dynasty (221–207 B.C.). Subsequently, depictions of this fungus proliferated through Chinese literature and art. The mushroom is known by many in North America and Europe as one of the ‘‘artist’s conk’’ fungi (the true artist conk is Ganoderma applanatum). A detailed description of the reishi mushroom and its taxonomy can be found in Refs. (Fig. 1).
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