Ganoderma

Was that reishi or was that something else, do you think?

So that's called a Ganoderma aplanatum, an artist conch.

And it's in the Reishi family.

Reishi is Ganoderma lucidium.

Okay.

And that's a mushroom.

That's the mushroom of immortality or meditation in a bottle, right, from the Chinese medicine system.

But the Ganoderma aplanatum... is a perennial mushroom that stays all year long.

On maple, bigleaf maples, for example, we see tons of, um, tons of decay and, um, there can be fungal fruiting bodies in the heartwood that if the cambium is still intact, doesn't necessarily mean that the tree needs to come down.

Um, versus, you know, if you're looking at the same tree, a bigleaf maple, uh, certain Ganoderma is a, is a fungal fruiting body out here, and certain gamma- Ganoderma infestations, uh, can be pretty serious.

Um, and, and if you don't know what you're looking for, um, they, they can cause, cause big, big failures, um, especially in a loading event.

Um, but yeah, yeah, I mean, knowing, knowing what you're looking for, the failure profile of the species and, and being able to correctly identify, um, the fungus is, is a major, major component in the equation.

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but Ganoderma, which is the genus of-

Yep

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... very widely.

So this is the beauty, like the way I've kind of tried to consider it, is there's a reishi mushroom or a Ganoderma species in every intact temperate and tropical rainforest.

They're in South America, they're in Central America, they're in Europe, they're in Africa.

The modern era.

The modern era, the Western naming, the species, uh, Ganoderma lucidum, was scientifically stri- described in the West in the 18th century.

The genus Ganoderma was espe- was established in the 19th century.

Today, some researchers argue that the most commonly cultivated Asian reish- reishi mushroom is actually a different species, uh, called G. lingzhi.

Cultivation.

And most recently, how fun that what I started using, instead I'd use a melatonin, I use a separate theanine, I use your Sleep Time, which has melatonin, theanine, taurine, magnesium, 5-HTP.

If people take this every waking hour, and then I do like Ganoderma spores, the most potent part of that plant which lowers circulating cortisol in the bloodstream, then just like that people step into zen.

You know, that's what, that's what they feel like.

Mm.