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Tiger Milk Mushroom
A stalked polypore of tropical forests that grows singly from a buried, tuber-like sclerotium rather than from wood. The sclerotium is a traditional medicine in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. It has been cultivated in Malaysia, including the commercial strain TM02. The IUCN assessment treats the name as covering a species complex.
Not a culinary mushroom: the cap and stem are woody. The sclerotium is taken as powder or decoction. A 28-day rat study of cultivated TM02 sclerotium found no treatment-related toxicity up to 1,000 mg/kg/day. Human clinical evidence is scarce. It has often been mistaken for Lentinus (Pleurotus) tuber-regium, another sclerotium-forming species.
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