Bamboo Meat Fungus
Also known as Goetz’s meat fungus, it commonly parasitizes alpine bamboo species and is also called bamboo fungus. It forms irregularly spherical fleshy stromata on bamboo culms, which are pink or light flesh-colored when fresh and turn gray-white or gray-brown when dried. The surface of the stroma embeds its spore-producing structure—the perithecia—containing asci and ascospores. It is distributed across more than ten counties in northwestern Yunnan, such as Heqing, Eryuan, Yongsheng, Huaping, Zhongdian, Weixi, Fugong, and Gongshan. It typically grows in alpine coniferous and mixed coniferous-broadleaf forests at elevations between 2,000 and 3,000 meters. Traditionally, the stroma has been used to treat mumps, sore throat, and gastritis, and is also used in herbal formulas for treating lung and gastric cancers.
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