Qilian yellow mushrooms because of its short season, preservation of freshness is extremely difficult, so most of them are dried into dry products to save.

Qilian yellow mushrooms, Qilian Mountain area specialties, known as Qinghai "ten treasures" one of the beautiful name. Qilian County, Qinghai Province is a famous production area. The county of Qilian Mountain mid-slope area, forests, grasslands, rich resources, pollution-free, high altitude, the production of yellow mushrooms, large, thick meat, less water, fine texture, is the Tibetan plateau on the famous mountain treasures. 2008 was approved by the Chinese geographical indications certification mark.

During the Yongzheng period, Nian Juanyao led the Qing army to pacify the rebellion in Qinghai and Tibet, and the local king of Qinghai submitted to the court, and among the tribute offered to the court, there were yellow mushrooms, which were also known as "royal mushrooms".

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Qilian yellow mushrooms rare and precious, nutritious, delicious flavor, rich in protein, minerals, amino acids and a variety of vitamins. Qilian County, Qibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, Qibei County, eight treasure town production of the most famous. In the Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qumalai County, about the change in the town territory is also distributed.

Qilian County has a vast grassland, totaling 17,641,100 acres, accounting for 80 percent of the county's land area. Dense primary forests grow in the county, with Qinghai spruce, cypress, poplar and sea buckthorn as the main forestry land area of 3,145,700 mu, accounting for 15.1% of the land area, and the forest coverage rate is 13.5%.

The vast grassland and rich forest resources provide excellent conditions for the growth of wild mushrooms and medicinal herbs, and there are 368 kinds of economic medicinal plants*** in the county, among which the famous ones are rhubarb, Chaihu, Astragalus, Gentiana Macrophyllae, Qiangwu, Xuelian, Cordyceps, etc*** 325 kinds of plants, belonging to 57 families and 91 genera. What's more, there are sea buckthorn, mushrooms, strawberries, lichens, hairy vegetables and other edible plants and fungi. Among them, yellow mushroom is the main edible mushroom species in the semi-mountainous area of the county.