Malong White Ling Mushroom

Malong White Ling Mushroom

　　Malong White Ling Mushroom is a specialty of Malong County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province. This edible mushroom boasts high nutritional and medicinal value. It is snow-white in color, with thick and tender flesh, a delicate texture, a fragrant aroma, and a delicious taste.

　　Also known as Pleurotus eryngii, the White Ling Mushroom is a low-temperature grassland fungus. It is mainly cultivated using straw, wheat straw, cottonseed hulls, corn stalks, and other materials in bag culture, utilizing sunlight greenhouses or idle rooms. The optimal temperature for mycelial growth is 24–26°C, while the optimal temperature for fruiting body development is 8–18°C. Cultivated in autumn and winter, it has a mycelial growth period of about 50 days, a total growth cycle of 100 days, and a biological conversion rate of 60–80%.