Latin Name: Grifola Frondosa
Specification: 4:1/ 5:1 /10:1;
10%~50% Polysaccharides
Apperance:Brown Yellow powder
Testing Method: TLC& UV
Part Used: Bodyfruit & mycelium
Maitake mushroom is an edible and medicinal mushroom grows in the northern
part of the Temperate Zone in the Northern Hemisphere found in Japan, China,
Europe and North America. Wild Maitake can be harvested in September and October.
It forms large hands, mainly near the roots of big fagaceous trees such as white oak,
beech, and tanbark oak. It grows in persimmon, plum, apricot, Prunus ume and oak trees.
It invades the core of these trees. It decomposes lignin and leaves the cellulose,
which is the cause of so-called white rot.
Maitake is classed as a polypore, a mushroom without the common feature
of a singular cap and gills. Instead, it has multiple branching stems with flowery-ruffed caps.
The underside of these caps is covered with a thin layer of densely packed pores.
common name is lotus flower, because of the shape is like dance skirt, so Japanese name
it as dance mushroom.
