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An East Asian laccate Ganoderma with a shiny dark reddish-brown to purplish-black cap and a long blackish stem. It grows on the roots and trunks of conifers in Japan, China and Korea. It is used in traditional medicine and has been grown on sawdust in Korea and Japan. Taiwanese material long called G. neojaponicum is now G. bambusicola. Some Southeast Asian medicinal literature under this name may also refer to G. bambusicola.
Not a food; treat as toxic: the fruitbody is woody and tough. It is used in northeast Asian herbal medicine as decoctions or extracts. Caution: two patients in Korea developed reversible pancytopenia (a drop in all blood cell counts) after drinking a decoction of this species (Yoon et al. 2011, Clinical Toxicology). Do not self-medicate with it.
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