Yongren Mountain Delicacies

Yongren Mountain Delicacies

　　Yongren County is a mountainous region with high peaks, dense forests, moderate rainfall, and fertile soil, providing highly favorable conditions for the growth of a variety of wild edible fungi. During summer and autumn each year, slopes, woods, streamsides, and even roadsides are dotted with clusters, patches, and expanses of various wild mushrooms. The wild mushrooms in Yongren not only come in many varieties and are produced in large quantities, but also have a long growing season, with a harvest period lasting more than half a year.

Among the many wild edible fungi are delicious chicken mushrooms, fragrant fragrant heads and shiitake mushrooms, matsutake hailed as the “king of mushrooms,” ear-shaped wood ear mushrooms, chunky and pancake-like dry bark mushrooms, tiger’s paw mushrooms with tiger-striped patterns, golden trumpet-shaped chanterelle mushrooms, colorful coral-like bamboo shoot mushrooms and northern wind mushrooms, as well as bluehead mushrooms, chestnut mushrooms, scallion mushrooms, grain-ripe mushrooms, boletus mushrooms... and so on. Among them, matsutake, chicken mushrooms, boletus mushrooms, and shiitake mushrooms are especially prized and can be regarded as the true delicacies of Yongren.