Sparassis crispa is expected to achieve large-scale production and promotion in China

Sparassis crispa not only has extremely high medicinal value, but also quite high edible value, and is also known as the "King of Ten Thousand Mushrooms." In China, only a small amount of Sparassis crispa is distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Tibet, Yunnan, Fujian and other places. Abroad, it is also distributed in Japan, South Korea, the United States, Canada, and Australia, but its wild resource reserves are quite scarce. It is expensive, with dried products valued at about 2,000 yuan per kilogram on the international market. It is rich in polysaccharides, containing 2-3 times more than lingzhi (Ganoderma lucidum), and has excellent anti-cancer effects.

In the 1980s, Chinese researchers began research on artificial cultivation of Sparassis crispa. In 1994, the Edible Fungi Research Institute of the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences launched this research project. In 2005, the first batch of artificially cultivated Sparassis crispa was produced, making a breakthrough in China and successfully overcoming the key technical bottleneck of artificial cultivation of Sparassis crispa. Recently, researcher Lin Yanquan of the Edible Fungi Research Institute of the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences pioneered China's artificial propagation process for Sparassis crispa, which is expected to be demonstrated and promoted on a large scale in production. Pan Shaoyu, an edible fungi expert at the Daqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Heilongjiang, also successfully domesticated Sparassis crispa after two years. The artificial domestication of Sparassis crispa means it can be planted on a large scale, and at present, both its market prospects and the economic benefits of cultivation are very considerable.