Yunzhi, also known as mixed-color Yunzhi, yellow Yunzhi, grey Zhizhi, tile fungus, colorful cloud leather cover mushroom, multi-colored boletus, red see the hand, thousand layers of mushrooms, colorful pattern Yunzhi. It is one of the fungi with medicinal value, with the effect of clearing heat, detoxification, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, liver and so on.

Botanical form

Colorful velvet Geoderma subunit annual. Leathery to semi-fibrous, lateral sessile, often imbricate overlapping, often connected to the left and right, born in the logging pile section or on the fallen wood of the substrate often surrounded by a rosette. The cap is semicircular to shell-shaped, (1-6)cm×(1-10)cm, 1-3mm thick; the cap surface is white when young, gradually changing to dark color, with dense fine downy hairs, varying in length, gray, white, brown, blue, purple, black and other colors, and constitutes a cloudy concentric ring; the edge of the cap is thin and sharp, wavy, complete, light color. Tube mouth surface initially white, gradually changing to yellow-brown, russet to light gray-black; tube mouth rounded to polygonal, 3-5 per 1mm, later dehiscence, mycelium tube monolayer, white, 1-2mm long. mycelium flesh white, fibrous, drying fibrous to subleathery. The spores are cylindrical, slightly curved, smooth, colorless, (1.5-2)μm x (2-5)μm.

The cloud mushroom, also known as the "turkey tail", has very recognizable characteristics. It is probably the only forest fungus named after a bird that is named after a local feature rather than the whole. But whereas chick and hen mushrooms don't resemble chicks and hens at all, this fungus resembles a turkey tail, and it's not clear who started this little menagerie of the fungal world.?

Alias: Mixed-color Yunzhi, ? color velvet leather cap mushroom, monochrome cloud mushroom, pearl chicken spotted cloud mushroom, yellow cloud mushroom, gray mushroom, tile mushroom, color cloud leather cap mushroom, thousand layers of mushrooms, colorful cloud mushroom

Medicinal source: for the Polyporaceae fungi color velvet leather cap mushroom's substrate.

Latin Plant Animal Mineral Name: Coriolus versicolor (L.ex Fr.) Quel.[Polystictus versicolor (L.) Fr.]

Harvesting and Storage: can be harvested throughout the year, remove impurities, and dry in the sun.

Taste: sweet; light; slightly cold.

Organs: Liver; Spleen; Lung Meridian

Functions: Strengthening the spleen and inducing dampness; relieving cough and asthma; clearing heat and removing toxins; anti-tumor. Chronic active hepatitis; cirrhosis; chronic bronchitis; pediatric spasmodic bronchitis; sore throat; various tumors; rheumatoid arthritis; leukemia.

Use and dosage: Internal use: decoction, 15-30g. 24 hours or more. Or made into tablets, punch, injection use.

Materials: Yunzhi, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, 250g of lean meat. Practice: Decoct with 3 bowls of water to 1 bowl.

Habitat distribution: common large fungi, mainly wild, born on a variety of broad-leaved tree stumps, fallen wood and branches. It is distributed in forests all over the world.

Morphological features

Polyporaceae Yunzhi genus. It is a putrefactive fungus. Substrate semicircular umbrella-shaped, hard wood, dark gray-brown, outer edge with white or light brown edge. The cap is long with short hairs. Sessile, with ring-like ribs and radial wrinkles. Lower part of cap light colored, with dense tubular pores, bearing spores, tube mouth white, yellowish, 3-5 per mm. Spores cylindrical, colorless, 4.5-7*3-3.5 microns. Yunzhi imbricate arrangement, interconnected, 1-10 centimeters long.?

Yunzhi Uses

The ascospores contain an anticancer substance. The fungus is used medicinally to remove dampness, dissolve phlegm and cure lung diseases. It is effective in treating chronic bronchitis and prolonged chronic hepatitis. Yunzhi can be used as an immunotherapy drug for liver cancer. The polysaccharides extracted from the mycelium and those extracted from the fermentation broth are strongly anticarcinogenic. The inhibition rates of sarcoma 180 and Ehrlich carcinoma in mice were 80% and 100%, respectively.

Yunzhi is also a fungus with a variety of metabolites, including protease, peroxidase, amylase, insect laccase, as well as leather enzyme, which has its own wide range of economic uses. In addition, in the section of wood cultivation of fungus and mushrooms often have the growth of the fungus, is regarded as a harmful "fungus".