Cordyceps Chinese Herb 冬虫夏草

About Cordyceps

This is Cordycep a genus of ascomycete fungi that includes about 400 species. All

Cordyceps species are endoparasitoids, parasitic mainly on insects and other arthropods a few are parasitic on other fungi.

Until recently, the best known species of the genus was Cordycep sinensis,first recorded as yartsa gunbu in Nyamnyi Dorje's 15th century Tibetan text An ocean of Aphrodisiacal Qualities.In 2007, nuclear DNA sampling revealed this species to be unrelated to most of the rest of the members of the genus; as a result it was renamed Ophiocordyceps sinensis and placed in a new family, the Ophiocordycipitaceae.

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