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How to identify wild Hericium erinaceus
Look at it (color, size, shape, hair, roots), weigh it, smell it, and eat it.

Look at the color. Wild colors range from dark brown to yellow. Artificial colors are uniform, and yellow is white.

Look at the wild hair, thick hair, long hair, yellow and shiny, and artificial hair, short capillary and dull.

Look at the size and shape, the wild ones are different in size, the shapes are irregular and irregular, and the appearance is not good-looking. The artificial shapes and sizes are similar, and the overall appearance is beautiful.

Look at the wild back or roots with dark brown tree rust and bark residue, the roots are sharp, the artificial roots are smooth, most of them are clean, and occasionally there are medium fungus molds.

Dian: the wild is heavy and hard, and the artificial is light and soft;

Smell: The wild mushroom smells particularly heavy, and it smells like mushrooms all over the room, but the artificial one has no mushroom smell and even has a pungent smell.

Eat: The wild flavor is rich and mellow, while most artificial ones are a little bitter.

About tree rust: Because the wild Hericium erinaceus grows on the trunk, the roots and back are close to the bark, so there will be a dark brown substance, Screaming Trees rust, on the back and roots of Hericium erinaceus, which can be scraped off or peeled off after being soaked in water.

Wild Hericium erinaceus grows on tree trunks, likes wet and dark environment, absorbs the sap of old trees and grows up. It is usually picked by mountain people and dried in the sun. Most of the artificial cultivation is carried out in the greenhouse, which is planted, picked and dried in a unified way. In recent years, there are also artificial wild environment planting, and Baoshan planted hyphae on the trunk.