Reishi and other ‘magic’ mushrooms

[newusername1]

Though reishi is rather rare to find, it's relative ganoderma applanatum is not. I see a lot of them growing on trees everywhere. They can get huge.
It is said to have the same medicinal properties though it might be less potent by weight.
It is probably more difficult to consume though because it is hard as a rock.

I once took a big chunk from a huge cluster of these things, but because i didn't look forward to hacking it into tinier pieces because of how hard the thing is and also because i found it quite pretty to look at, it's sitting on a windowsill now.

 

[Nydex]

i didn't look forward to hacking it into tinier pieces because of how hard the thing is

Reminds me of that one time I foraged a bunch of fomes fomentarius from a birch forest and cut it up at home. By the end, my hands were so bruised and sore I could barely move them... But I did get sick a couple of weeks later and started making tea out of it and other herbs and honey, and drinking a couple of liters of that tea every day definitely helped me recover a lot.