Changbaishan Wild Monkey Head is also known as Monkey Head Mushroom, Monkey Head Mushroom, Cauliflower Mushroom, Hedgehog Mushroom, Pair of Faces Mushroom, Mountain Volvic Mushroom, and in Japan it is known as Mountain Volvic Mushroom. It belongs to the phylum of fungi, subphylum of tambourine fungi, order of non pleurotomycetes, family of Monkeyhead Mushroom, genus of Monkeyhead Mushroom. Monkey head mushroom is a valuable dual-use mushrooms, it is tender and fresh, is a feast on the delicacies, people often with the bear's paw, sea cucumber, shark's fin and listed as one of the four famous dishes, and there is a "mountain treasures, monkey head, the sea taste of bird's nest," said.

Monkey head of the substrate fresh white, dry yellowish or yellow-brown, lumpy, generally 5-20 cm in diameter. Monkey head mushroom substrate consists of many short and thick branches, but the branches are extremely fat and short, fused with each other, cauliflower-like, only a small gap in the middle, all into a large piece of meat, the base is narrow, the upper part of the expansion, covered with needle-like thorns. Flesh spines bearing fruiting layers. Flesh spines are more developed, some as long as 3 cm, pendulous, the first white, after the yellow-brown, the entire substrate like a monkey's head, color like monkey hair, so it is called monkey head bacteria.

Monkey head mushroom is rich in nutrients, it is determined that each 100 grams of dried monkey head mushroom contains 26.3 grams of protein, 4.2 grams of fat, 44.9 grams of carbohydrates, 6.4 grams of crude fiber, 10.2 grams of water, phosphorus 856 milligrams, 18 milligrams of iron, calcium 2 milligrams of vitamin B1

0.69 milligrams of vitamin B2

1.89 milligrams, carotene 0.01 mg, also contains 16 kinds of amino acids, of which 7 kinds of essential amino acids. Monkey head mushroom is not only rich in nutrients, but also flavorful, fragrant and delicious, has always been a rare edible fungi.

Monkey head mushroom has a unique medicinal value, in the medical that monkey head is flat, taste sweet, helps digestion, good heart. Can cure dyspepsia, gastric ulcer, sinusitis, stomach pain, stomach bloating and neurasthenia and other diseases. In recent years, more striking is the research proved that it has anti-cancer effect. In Shanghai trial 166 cases of gastric cancer, cardia cancer, esophageal cancer and other digestive tract malignant tumors, up to 69.3%, 15% apparent effect. In 227 cases of gastric and duodenal ulcer and chronic gastritis, the improvement amounted to 86.6%, with obvious effect of 26.8%. It has been identified that after taking the drug, the patient's symptoms improve, appetite increases, pain relief. For some patients with tumors, it also has the efficacy of improving cellular immune function, shrinking masses and prolonging survival time.