What are the main producing areas of wood ear mushroom at present?
China is the main producing country of wood ear mushroom, and the producing areas are mainly distributed in Jilin, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hubei, Shaanxi and Zhejiang, among which Hailin City and Dongning County in the Mudanjiang area of Heilongjiang Province and Huangsongdian Town in Jiaohe County of Jilin Province are the largest black wood ear mushroom bases in China.
Wood ear mushroom grows on the decaying wood of more than 120 kinds of broadleaf trees such as oak, poplar, banyan and pagoda tree, either singly or in groups. In mycological classification, it belongs to Basidiomycetes, Auriculariales, Auriculariaceae. There are 9 species in China, Heilongjiang has all the existing 8 varieties, Yunnan currently has 7 species, and Lushi County in Henan has one species. Wild black wood ear mushroom is mainly distributed in the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains forest areas, the Qinba Mountains, the Funiu Mountains and so on. Fang County and Suizhou in Hubei, Qingchuan in Sichuan, and Wenshan, Honghe, Baoshan, Dehong, Lijiang, Dali, Xishuangbanna, Qujing and other prefectures and cities in Yunnan, as well as Lushi County in Henan Province, are production areas of wood ear mushroom in China.
Black wood ear mushroom is a famous mountain delicacy, edible, medicinal and tonic; Chinese people never tire of it on the dining table, and it has the reputation of “meat among vegetables”, and is called “the black treasure of Chinese cuisine” in the world. And the cultivation method of black wood ear mushroom is regarded as unsurpassed in the history of world agronomy, horticulture and mushroom cultivation.
By color, wood ear mushroom is divided into white wood ear mushroom and black wood ear mushroom; by cultivation, it is divided into wild and artificially cultivated. The vast majority sold on the market is artificially cultivated; wild black wood ear mushroom is precious and rare, and Changbai Mountain black wood ear mushroom is the most famous.