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Snowflake Cordyceps
Cordyceps tenuipes is an entomopathogenic fungus of moth and butterfly larvae and pupae. It is best known from its asexual stage, which forms white to pale yellow, powdery synnemata on the host. It was long known as Isaria tenuipes or Paecilomyces tenuipes and is used in functional foods in Japan and South Korea.
Used in functional foods and supplements in Japan and South Korea. It is not a forage food; wild insect-parasitic fungi are hard to identify to species.
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