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.
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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
I just took the old part, this fungus grows on the roots of dead coconut trees. luckily this mushroom grows beside my house, so i can pick it up now.
This fungus has fallen under the young fungus that has just grown, the texture is hard like wood.
Yeah that one probably is only good for firewood. The medicinal reishi stays red in color after you've harvested it.
thanks for all the information, it was very helpful. maybe it's just a fungus that has something in common with Lingzhi
actually I didn't harvest it, it had fallen off when I found it