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Medicinal mushrooms have been used as very important tonic medicines for centuries in Asian healing modalities. There are many of these mushrooms (Maitake, Turkey Tail, Lion's Mane, to name only a few), and it is easy to get lost in their power and beauty. Reishi, however, is often given the title, "King of the Mushrooms," which is surely saying a lot, considering the company it keeps. These mushrooms have a very long history of reverence and appreciation, and have even been endowed mystical and spiritual qualities. The term Reishi is used commonly to describe several species in the genus Ganoderma. There's much doubt and debate about what to call different reishi mushrooms found around the world. Are they all just different phenotypic expressions of the same highly variable G. lucidum species? In any case, what we call "Oregon Reishi" is a common Pacific Northwest fungus variously termed Ganoderma oregonense, G. tsugae, G. lucidum or G. resinaceum, depending on who's doing the identification