"Cordyceps flower" is not a flower, but an artificially cultivated Cordyceps fruiting body. The culture medium is a fungus that imitates various nutrients contained in natural insects, including cereals, beans, eggs and milk. It is very similar to common edible mushrooms such as Lentinus edodes and Pleurotus ostreatus, but the strains, growth environment and growth conditions are different. In order to distinguish it from Cordyceps sinensis, the merchant gave it a nice name called "Cordyceps sinensis flower". The biggest appearance feature of Cordyceps sinensis flowers is that there is no "insect body", only orange or yellow "grass".
Cordyceps sinensis is just an artificial extract planted separately. It is just an edible fungus. Therefore, it does not contain other components of Cordyceps sinensis, such as cordycepic acid and cordyceps polysaccharide. Therefore, it cannot have other functions of Cordyceps sinensis, such as tonifying kidney, protecting liver, resisting cancer and nourishing lung. And it is only medically proved that it has a certain effect on tumors, and the effect is far less than that of Cordyceps sinensis.