Hi @sketch.and.jam i have never tried it, but i want to try it. whether this mushroom contains poison, if wrong in processing?
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Hi @sketch.and.jam i have never tried it, but i want to try it. whether this mushroom contains poison, if wrong in processing?
Reishi and other ganoderma species aren't poisonous. The only thing I've ever read about Reishi is if you eat/drink lots of it every single day then you could damage your kidneys, but you would literally need to be eating piles of them every day to do that. As a supplemental medicinal where you boil pieces of it with tea a couple times a week is totally safe. As for taste it isn't any thing special they taste like wood literally so you have to boil it with other types of tea and you just get the nice medicinal effects. You can also soak it in an alcohol like vodka for a long time to make a tincture that you can take drops of for the medicinal qualities. Some people have ways of cooking fresh ones as well but they have to be really fresh before they get woody and you need lots of spices to make it taste good.
Hi @sketch.and.jam is there any size in tea making per 200ml glass.
For tea you just cut a couple finger sized chunks off the mushrooms and boil it for around half an hour. Then add the tea at the end so it doesn't get overboiled. To get the medicinal elements out of reishi you have to boil it for a much longer time.
whether this mushroom can be harvested?
and which part to take?
Usually the good medicinal reishi have a shiny red to them, this one appears to be a different species of ganoderma. Chances are this one doesn't have any medicinal properties or way less medicinal properties than the true reishi. Here's what medicinal reishi look like. I probably wouldn't bother harvesting this one, just keep an eye out for the more shiny red ones.
I also grew some at home from a kit and they ended up looking like antlers
looks like it looks different to what i got.
because my wife forbade me to eat the mushrooms I found. my wife is afraid something will happen to me after consuming it
Yeah its always better to cautious. I suspect you might have a Ganoderma resinaceum rather than the Ganoderma lingzhi (reishi) while not poisonous they aren't known to have any medicinal properties and are a bit too tough to work with.
See some similar species here
https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/ganoderma-resinaceum.php