Artist's Conk MycoLogic

The Artist's Conk mushroom (Ganoderma sp.) is a serious heavyweight in the realm of functional fungi. It is a close relative of a more famous mushroom in the same family - Reishi / Ling Zhi (Ganoderma lucidum) and contains the same types of compounds.

When boiled as a tea (one hour of light simmer for good extraction) and/or extracted with alcohol (often a combination of both is used), it is a potent functional mushroom that has been used for centuries in various parts of the world, particularly Asia and Siberia.

With well researched effectiveness, this mushroom is one to not go without in your personal health toolkit.

It gets its name, 'Artist's conk', from the fact that the smooth white underside of the fungus can be drawn on using any sharp object like a stick or nail, and when the fungus is dried, this imprint remains. The fruit bodies have been used as a natural drawing medium for centuries.

This species is best grown on logs using dowel spawn. It is not a fast...