Ophiocordyceps sobolifera, commonly known as Cordyceps, is an insect-borne fungus; of the more than 530 species of Cordyceps found around the world, Ophiocordyceps sobolifera and Cordyceps sinensis are only two of them; it is a marvelous organism that has the appearance of both animal and plant morphology, and the root is the larval body of the cicada. Cordyceps sinensis is a kind of marvelous organism with the morphological characteristics of "animal" and "plant", the root is the larval body of cicadas, and the flower is grown from the head of a single or 2-3 cicada larvae, which is about more than one inch long, and blooms from the apical branch, and the pollen is milky yellow, which is also known as "cicadas spore powder", and is simply called "seed", which is the "seed". The pollen is creamy yellow and is also called "cicada sporopollen", which is simply called "seed" and has the function of reproduction. Its formation process is the cicada larvae in the cicada plumage before the wormwood fungus infection, parasitism, when the climate environment is suitable, absorption of nutrients into mycelium, and ultimately the body of the worm by the mycelium completely occupied with only a shell.

At the time of recovery, the mycelium is gradually transformed from the nutritive stage to the sexual stage with the function of reproduction of "cicadas spore powder", gradually from the top of the branch "germination" resembling flowers, so it is called cicadas flowers.

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